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 ...

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 ...

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 ...