Robert Lowell had ballast. When thrust into his terrifying fits of mania, he took with him a sweeping and deep knowledge of history and literature from the ancient world to the Puritan heritage he ...

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 ...

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 ...