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Winter 1964 • Vol. XXVI No. 1 • Five Poems for John Crowe Ransom |

The Lesson

By Robert Lowell

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Considered by many to be the most important poet in English of the second half of the twentieth century, Robert Lowell studied at Kenyon College under John Crowe Ransom and received an undergraduate degree in 1940. He published over fifteen books of poetry in his lifetime and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1947 at the age of thirty.

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