1S.G. Axelrod and Helen Deese, eds, Robert Lowell: Essays on the Poetry ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986), p. 70.
2Stephen Spender, "Robert Lowell's Family Album, "New Republic (8 June 1959), p. 17.
3Charles Altieri, "From Symbolist Thought to Immanence: The Ground of Postmodern American Poetics, "Boundary, vol. 1(Spring 1973), p. 615.
4Theodore Roethke," On Identity, "in On the Poet and His Craft: Selected Prose of Theodore Roethke, ed. Ralph J. Mills, Jr. ( Seattle: The University of Washington Press, 1965), p. 21.
5W.D. Snodgrass, "Poetry Since Yeats: An Exchange of Views," TriQuarterly (4,1965), pp. 101-102.
6W.D. Snodgrass, "Finding a Poem," Partisan Review ( Spring 1959), p. 283.
7Jay Martin, Robert Lowell ( Minneapolis : The University of Minnesota Press, 1970), p. 35.
8See Ian Hamilton, Robert Lowell:A Biography (New York: Vintage Books, 1983), p. 35.
9Richard Eberhart, "A Poet's People," New York Times Book Review (3 May 1959), p. 4.
10M.L. Rosenthal, "Poetry as Confession", Nation (19 September 1959), p. 154.