Bold Type's Poetry Editor Ernest Hilbert writes on Lowell: "Born into one of the more prominent and oldest families in the country, Lowell spent his entire life after age thirty (when he won his first Pulitzer Prize for Lord Weary's Castle, received a Guggenheim Fellowship, and was appointed Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress) in the public eye. He was one of the last poets to achieve such prominence."

Hear Lowell read 'For the Union Dead' and read an essay on the Robert Lowell Voice of the Poet recordings.