FOR THE UNION DEAD by Robert Lowell. 71 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $3.95. “The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows,” Robert Frost once wrote in a poem; and another New Englander, Robert ...

Sandra Hochman’s “Loving Robert Lowell” (the title alone leaves me weak-kneed) is a swift breeze of a read – especially for those of us who tried Kay Redford Jamison’s recent overwhelming medical ...

IMITATIONS (149 pp.)—Robert Lowell —Farrar, Straus & Cudahy ($4.50). Poets, like pumps, sometimes need priming. Schiller kept a drawer full of rotten apples, and sniffed at them whenever he required ...

Just weeks before his death in 1977, the poet Robert Lowell published Day by Day, a collection of poems that marked a significant shift toward a minimalist and confessional style—a style Lowell would ...