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A Scholarship to McLean

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on BBC Radio 4 FM

In the 1950s and 60s, the finest "graduate school of poetry" in the USA was the McLean mental hospital outside Boston, where Sylvia Plath was treated after her first suicide attempt and where Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Lowell was sectioned.
David Stenhouse looks at the institution and the poetry it inspired. Repeated from Sunday

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Sylvia Plath
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Robert Lowell
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David Stenhouse
Source: Radio Times

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