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  • For countless residents and tourists who meander by it on their daily rounds, it does what Robert Lowell said of Augustus Saint-Gaudens's bas-relief to Col.

    The Facelessness of Mass Destruction Willard Spiegelman 2011

  • But the book is also an echo chamber of allusions to Modernist poets from T.S. Eliot to Robert Lowell, imbuing it with a sense of contemporary neurosis.

    Synthesis and Ambivalence Sam Sacks 2011

  • Literary scholars have given a name -- confessional poetry -- to the practice, begun by Allen Ginsberg and Robert Lowell in the 1950s, of making poetry out of the poet's life, but art scholars have not noticed that this practice became important much earlier in visual art.

    David Galenson: Edvard Munch and Personal Art David Galenson 2011

  • Mr. Dylan acknowledges that T.S. Eliot, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Lowell are in another class, but then he is a better songwriter than all of them Eliot's unintended run as lyricist on Broadway notwithstanding.

    Poet, Prophet and Puzzle David Yezzi 2011

  • Literary scholars have given a name -- confessional poetry -- to the practice, begun by Allen Ginsberg and Robert Lowell in the 1950s, of making poetry out of the poet's life, but art scholars have not noticed that this practice became important much earlier in visual art.

    David Galenson: Edvard Munch and Personal Art David Galenson 2011

  • Anna Chancellor lends the vodka-swilling, heavy-smoking Blackwood a mixture of raffish charm and iron determination that explains why she attracted equally powerful men such as Freud and Robert Lowell.

    The Last of the Duchess – review 2011

  • Hundreds of other writers have used alcohol to excess, but they also attempted not to drink while writing -- see Dorothy Parker, John Cheever, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.

    Peter Brown Hoffmeister: Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Writers Peter Brown Hoffmeister 2011

  • Hundreds of other writers have used alcohol to excess, but they also attempted not to drink while writing -- see Dorothy Parker, John Cheever, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.

    Peter Brown Hoffmeister: Performance-Enhancing Drugs for Writers Peter Brown Hoffmeister 2011

  • On the subjects of sailing or fly fishing or Robert Lowell he writes with subtlety and originality.

    An Englishman Lights Out Barton Swaim 2011

  • Robert Lowell got it the most nearly right: Bob Dylan is alloy; he is true folk and he is fake folk. . .

    Poet, Prophet and Puzzle David Yezzi 2011

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