Robert Lowell:
(Boston, 1 March 1917 — New York, 12 September 1977).
Born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, Jr.
American poet belonging to the confessional poetry movement. Lowell is considered the father of this movement and is also important because he influenced a number of well-known poets of the 1950s and 1960s, including Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop and Sylvia Plath. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1947 and 1974.
I saw the spiders marching through the air, swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day in latter August when the hay came creaking to the barn.
