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Robert Lowell in Love
by Jeffrey Meyers.
Massachusetts, 288 pp., £36.50, December 2015,978 1 62534 186 0 Show More
by Jeffrey Meyers.
Massachusetts, 288 pp., £36.50, December 2015,
“... In the summer of 1935, when he was 18, Robert Lowell and two friends from St Mark’s School – Blair Clark and Frank Parker – rented a house in Nantucket. Under Lowell’s direction, they studied the Bible (with special attention to the Book of Job) and ate cereal with raw honey and ‘badly’ cooked eels ... ”