Awards & Winners

Robert Lowell

Date of Birth 01-March-1917
Place of Birth Boston
(Suffolk County, Massachusetts, United States of America, Area code 617, Area code 857)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV, Lowell, Robert, Cal, Robert Traill Spence "Cal" Lowell IV
Profession Poet, Writer, Author
Robert Traill Spence "Cal" Lowell IV was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the Mayflower. His family, past and present, were important subjects in his poetry. Growing up in Boston also informed his poems, which were frequently set in Boston and the New England region. Lowell stated, "The poets who most directly influenced me ... were Allen Tate, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Carlos Williams. An unlikely combination!..... but you can see that Bishop is a sort of bridge between Tate's formalism and Williams's informal art." After the publication of his 1959 book Life Studies, which won the 1960 National Book Award and "featured a new emphasis on intense, uninhibited discussion of personal, family, and psychological struggles," he was considered an important part of the confessional poetry movement. However, much of Lowell's work, which often combined the public with the personal, did not conform to a typical "confessional poetry" model. Instead, Lowell worked in a number of distinctive stylistic modes and forms over the course of his career. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, where he served from 1947 until 1948. In addition to winning the National Book Award, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1947 and 1974, the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1977, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award in 1947. He is "widely considered one of the most important American poets of the postwar era." His biographer Paul Mariani called him "the poet-historian of our time" and "the last of [America's] influential public poets."

Awards by Robert Lowell

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert Lowell.

1988


1977


1976


Nominations 1976 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Neustadt International Prize for Literature

1974


Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Honored for : The Dolphin

Nominations 1974 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar's Book Jacket Award Daughter of Darkness

1970


Nominations 1970 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Poetry Notebook 1967-68

1965


Obie Award for Best New American Play
Honored for : The Old Glory
(Best American Play)
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Playwright
Honored for : The Old Glory

Nominations 1965 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Drama Desk Award for Outstanding New Playwright The Old Glory
National Book Award for Poetry For the Union Dead

1960


National Book Award for Poetry
Honored for : Life Studies

Nominations 1960 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
National Book Award for Poetry Life Studies

1947


Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Honored for : Lord Weary's Castle