Robert Lowell

Critic Val Warner called CB a unique voice in twentieth-century British fiction. A press handout on Nancy Schoenberger 's biography likens Blackwood's work to that of Edna O'Brien , Muriel Spark , Iris Murdoch

Having obtained a divorce in Santo Domingo, CB married the US poet Robert Lowell , whom she had met (as husband of Elizabeth Hardwick ) in 1966; their affair began while he was a...

Robert Lowell published his poetry collection The Dolphin, dedicated to and substantially about CB . This book won the Pulitzer Prize, but produced negative responses from Blackwood and other women writers.

American poet Robert Lowell died suddenly of a heart attack in a taxi, somewhere between Kennedy Airport and Manhattan, while hurrying away from his present wife, CB , and towards his former wife, Elizabeth Hardwick .

One factor in dividing CB from Freud may have been her involvement with Cyril Connolly , who pursued her although or because he had been a friend of her father's at Eton. In the last...

By now she had been several years with Robert Lowell , who was the single most important influence on her writing, though his own literary fame was also a cause for anxiety to her. A...

Between 1941 and 1944 EB lived with in Key West with Marjorie Stevens , who was there for her health and was married, but in an open marriage. The two women fell in love when...

Important among EB 's friendships were those with Marianne Moore (whom she met in March 1934 while she was still at college and learned a lot from in her early years in New York, but...

Early reviews of North & South were not enthusiastic, until the tide was turned following warm praise by Marianne Moore , Randall Jarrell , and then Robert Lowell , who was dismissive of some...

At the Fishhouses brought a letter from Robert Lowell (Cal) saying he was very envious of what might be her best poem yet. He became from now on her strong supporter.

She is said to have taken unusual trouble over her letters to Robert Lowell , which he found odd and observant, poetic but domestic, personal without intrusion.

Though Robert Lowell praised the poems in this volume, its reception marked a downturn in PB 's reception. Some established male poets—Alan Brownjohn , Al Alvarez —blamed her for being too crafted, too careful...

Michael A. Musmanno , a judge at some of the Nuremberg trials, attacked this book in a lead review in the New York Times: he read it as a defence of Eichmann, a whitewash...