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Poetry

Time Out

It took that pause to make him realize
The mountain he was climbing had the slant
As of a book held up before his eyes

Robert Lowell on Native Ground

Physically Robert Lowell gave an impression of force, with strong shoulders and an unusually large head—not a head that revealed the skull and hinted at the brain as with his mentor Allen Tate: one, rather, that gave a powerful but awkward, elemental impression, making one think simultaneously of a bull and a creature of the sea.

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