"Man and Wife" by Robert Lowell (poetry reading)

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Lowell was a confessional poet like Sylvia Plath. The corrosive reality of his life with its alcoholism, madness, and womanising is laid out with violent and stultifying imagery in elegant, perfectly-controlled poetry. This was published in 1959, he was married to Elizabeth Hardwick. He refers to Philip Rahv, the literary critic. Miltown is a tranquilliser.