In the Cage
work by Lowell
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discussed in biography
- In Robert Lowell: Lord Weary’s Castle, first Pulitzer, and service as poet laureate
His poem “In the Cage” from Lord Weary’s Castle (1946) comments on this experience, as does in greater detail “Memories of West Street and Lepke” in Life Studies. His first volume of poems, Land of Unlikeness (1944), deals with a world in crisis and the hunger for…
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