Robert Lowell, born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, IV, was an American poet whose works, confessional in nature, engaged with the questions of history and probed the dark recesses of the self. He is generally considered to be among the greatest American poets of the twentieth century. His first and second books, Land of Unlikeness (1944) and Lord Weary's Castle (for which he received a Pulitzer Prize in 1947, at the age of thirty) , were influenced by his conversion from Episcopalianism to Catholicism and explored the dark side of America's Puritan legacy. Under the influence of Allen Tate and the New Critics,...
Peter Kent
Peter Kent is a best-selling author (over 60 books for major US publishers during the last 35 years) and journalist who writes about wide variety of subjects. His most recent book is a down-to-earth, commonsense look at the COVID-19 epidemic, but his published work over the decades has covered subjects as diverse as digital marketing, cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency mining, sex, skiing, politics, Internet technology, and more. Kent has a reputation for taking complicated technical subjects and breaking them down into bite-sized pieces that non-experts can digest and understand. He's a researcher and teacher,...
Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell, born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, IV, was an American poet whose works, confessional in nature, engaged with the questions of history and probed the dark recesses of the self. He is generally considered to be among the greatest American poets of the twentieth century. His first and second books, Land of Unlikeness (1944) and Lord Weary's Castle (for which he received a Pulitzer Prize in 1947, at the age of thirty) , were influenced by his conversion from Episcopalianism to Catholicism and explored the dark side of America's Puritan legacy. Under the influence of Allen Tate and the New Critics,...
Peter Kent
Peter Kent is a best-selling author (over 60 books for major US publishers during the last 35 years) and journalist who writes about wide variety of subjects. His most recent book is a down-to-earth, commonsense look at the COVID-19 epidemic, but his published work over the decades has covered subjects as diverse as digital marketing, cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency mining, sex, skiing, politics, Internet technology, and more. Kent has a reputation for taking complicated technical subjects and breaking them down into bite-sized pieces that non-experts can digest and understand. He's a researcher and teacher,...