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Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell, American poet and translator, was born on March 1, 1917, in Boston and graduated from Kenyon College (B.A., 1940). A grandnephew of James Russell Lowell and also related to Amy Lowell, his New England

Sir Thomas More

by Robert Lowell (1917–77)

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 Holbein's More, my patron saint as a convert, 
 the gold chain of S's, the golden rose, 
 the plush cap, the brow's damp feathertips of hair, 
 the good eyes' stern, facetious twinkle, ready 
 to turn from executioner to martyr— 
 or saunter with the great King's bluff arm on your neck, 
 feeling that friend-slaying, terror-dazzled heart 
 balooning off into its awful dream— 
 a noble saying, ‘How the King must love you!’ 

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What Japanese poet first wrote haiku?

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Prior to Masaoka Shiki, the poetic form established by Matsuo Bashowas known as hokku. Shiki is attributed with modernizing and refining the form, and coining the term "haiku."

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