Home After Three Months Away

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'Home After Three Months Away' is a poem by Robert Lowell which appeared in his book Life Studies; it is one of several 'confessional' poems in the book which stands at the beginning of the Confessional poetry movement.

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[edit] Composition

The poem was written after Lowell started returning home for weekends from thee McLean Hospital in Belmont, Boston in early 1958.[1] Lowell was finally released from McLean in June 1959.[2]

[edit] Comment

Ian Hamilton suggests that the poem owes something to W. D. Snodgrass's 'Heart's Needle.[3]

[edit] References

  • Hamilton, Ian, Robert Lowell: A Biography, Random House, New York, 1982. ISBN 039450965X.

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Hamilton, pages 252 – 254
  2. ^ Hamilton, page 274
  3. ^ Hamilton, page 254. The text of the Snodgrass poem can be found here.
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