Robert Lowell

In the final episode of their series, Mark and Seamus confront Robert Lowell: the Boston Brahmin for whom poetry trumped every other consideration, and whose Cold War ‘confessionalism’ came to exemplify a generation of Americans’ collective trauma; the poet who changed everything, but whose star has somehow fallen in recent years. Further reading on Lowell in the LRB: Karl Miller https://lrb.me/millerlowellpod John Bayley https://lrb.me/bayleylowellpod Michael Hofmann https://lrb.me/hofmannlowellpod Frank Kermode https://lrb.me/kermodelowellpod Colm Tóibín https://lrb.me/toibinlowellpod