Robert Lowell's Poetry and Prose

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Time Line.

1917
Born in Boston, Massachusetts , USA.

1940
Married novelist Jean Stafford.

1944
Poetry: Land of Unlikeness, 1st book.

1946
Poetry: Lord Weary's Castle, 2nd book.

1947
Pulitzer Prize for Lord Weary's Castle.
Appointed Consultant in Poetry to the U.S. Library of Congress, the position today known as the USA Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.

1948
End of appointment as Consultant in Poetry to the U.S. Library of Congress, the position today known as the USA Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
End of marriage to Jean Stafford.

1949
Married writer Elizabeth Hardwick.

1950
Included in Mid-Century American Poets anthology, with Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, Muriel Rukeyser, Karl Shapiro, Theodore Roethke, and John Ciardi.

1951
Poetry: The Mills of The Kavanaughs, 3rd book.

1959
Poetry: Life Studies, 4th book.

1961
Phaedra (translation).
Imitations.

1962
Bollingen Poetry Translation Prize for translations (or approximations) of poems by classical and modern European poets: Rilke, Montale, Baudelaire, Pasternak, Rimbaud, and others.

1964
Poetry: For the Union Dead, 5th book.

1965
The Old Glory.

1967
Poetry: Near the Ocean.

1969
The Voyage & other versions of poems of Baudelaire
Prometheus Bound.
Notebook (selections from two years of an experimental verse journal).

1970
Notebook (Revised and Expanded Edition).
Left his second wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, for Lady Caroline Blackwood, a British author.

1973
Poetry: For Lizzie and Harriet.
Poetry: History.
Poetry: The Dolphin.

1974
Pulitzer Prize for The Dolphin.

1976
Selected Poems.

1977
Revised Selected Poems.
Day by Day.
Died.

1978
The Oresteia of Aeschylus.

2003
Poetry: Collected Poems.

2005
One of six poets in The Wounded Surgeon by Adam Kirsch:
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  1. Robert Lowell.
  2. Elizabeth Bishop.
  3. John Berryman.
  4. Randall Jarrell.
  5. Delmore Schwartz.
  6. Sylvia Plath.

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