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Against this background stands Robert Traill Spence Lowell. Echoes of many of his predecessors and colleagues can be found here and there in his work, although he lacks the resigned elegance and orthodox Christianity of Eliot, the homespun philosophy of Frost, the intellectual subtlety of Stevens, the wit of Auden, the wild...
Badgered. Robert comes from the Russell-Spence branch of the family, whose most notable member, Great-Great-Grandmother Harriet Traill Spence, seems to have had her kinky side-although no one is quite certain what it was. Family Chronicler Ferris Greenslet writes that the Spences possessed "a certain mystical dreaminess that sometimes obscured the need for immediate action in the small, imperative affairs of daily living." In family privacy, this trait was dignified with a genteel euphemism: it was called "the Spence negligence...
...page pamphlet is the work of a five-man committee appointed by the Archbishop in March 1958 under the chairmanship of J. T. (for John Traill) Christie, principal of Oxford's Jesus College. The committee members (a lawyer, a psychiatrist, a philosopher and a theologian) investigated the subject of self-destruction from almost every conceivable angle-historical, legal, medical, moral-and came to the conclusion that considerably more charity is needed all around...
...Librarian Clyde Miller writes simply about a Southern tragedy that would have tempted most of his Southern contemporaries into pure bathos. An attractive, selfish woman gradually breaks down a man's spirit by refusing her love. Her teen-age nephew tells the story, and because he admires Captain Traill, the tragedy seems all the deeper. Unlike most sensitive boys of Southern fiction, young Joshua understands enough of an adult situation, but not so much that the tale appears incredible. At the start of his career, Author Miller already knows that what is left out is sometimes what makes...
...Back Bayer was a young (26) poet, Robert Traill Spence Lowell Jr., son of a retired naval commander, scion of a famed family with members in every war since the Revolution. No ordinary conscientious objector, Lowell twice tried to enlist, later reversed his views because he decided the bombings of total war are unethical. So he refused to serve "as a matter of principle." He was sentenced to a year and a day in Federal prison...