Robert Lowell (1917 - 1977 / Boston / United States) Biography
of Robert Lowell Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (March 1, 1917 –
September 12, 1977) was an American poet, considered the founder
of the confessional poetry movement. He was appointed the sixth
Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
where he served from 1947 until 1948. He won the Pulitzer Prize
in both 1947 and 1974, the National Book Award in 1960, and the
National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977. Lowell was born in
Boston, Massachusetts to a Boston Brahmin family that included
poets Amy Lowell and James Russell Lowell. His mother, Charlotte
Winslow, was a descendant of William Samuel Johnson, a signer of
the United States Constitution, along with Jonathan Edwards, the
famed Calvinist theologian, Anne Hutchinson, the Puritan
preacher and healer, Robert Livingston the Elder, Thomas Dudley,
the second governor of Massachusetts, and Mayflower passengers
James Chilton and his daughter Mary Chilton. He received his
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