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    A Study Guide for Robert Lowell's "Hawthorne"
    A Study Guide for Robert Lowell's "Hawthorne"
    A Study Guide for Robert Lowell's "Hawthorne"
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    A Study Guide for Robert Lowell's "Hawthorne"

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    A Study Guide for Robert Lowell's "Hawthorne," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535824590
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      Hawthorne

      Robert Lowell

      1964

      Introduction

      Hawthorne, published in 1964 in For the Union Dead, is a poem by Robert Lowell about the impact and works of the nineteenth-century American writer Nathaniel Hawthorne. At the time of its publication, Lowell was one of the most important poets in the United States and was spearheading the literary movement known as confessional poetry, which centered around the poet's personal and intimate reflections on his or her life and experience. Though Hawthorne is not one of his most confessional poems, it addresses the role of the artist in society, the relationship between the public and private, and creativity—all common themes in confessional poetry.

      The poem looks at Nathaniel Hawthorne's life and career and references passages from his works The Custom-House and Septimius Felton; or, the Elixir of Life. Lowell sets the poem in Salem, Massachusetts, where Hawthorne lived and worked for a time, oscillating between Hawthorne's time and the present to show the lasting impact of his career and works. Lowell's own reflections and commentary in Hawthorne bring in his signature confessional voice and convey his reverence for this influential artist.

      Author Biography

      Lowell was born Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV on March 1, 1917, in Boston, Massachusetts, to a an established family of the Boston elite, having descended directly from signers of the U.S. Constitution, famed theologians, Mayflower passengers, and the poets Amy Lowell and James Russell Lowell. Lowell began his formal education at the prominent Massachusetts preparatory school, St. Mark's, where he studied poetry under Richard Eberhart before following in the Lowell tradition of attending Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He would remain at Harvard for only two years before transferring to Kenyon College in Ohio to study under John Crowe Ransom, the

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