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 ...

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 ...

NOTEBOOK, 1967-68 by Robert Lowell. 161 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $6. In one of her celebrated remarks, Gertrude Stein once wrote, “Remarks are not literature.” However, a poet is a poet is a ...

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 ...