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Three poems by Robert Lowell

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"The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket"
"The Ghost"
"Falling Asleep over the Aeneid"
Read by Dylan Thomas
Robert Lowell was born in 1917 in Boston. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1947. He has published one book of verse in England, 'Poems, 1938-1949.' "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket" is an elegy for 'Warren Winslow, Dead at Sea.' "The Ghost" is an 'imitation' of Sextus Propertius.

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