For the Union Dead Resources

Check out this smattering of excerpts from academic essays on "For the Union Dead."

Check out the NYT archives for news about Robert Lowell.

Boston University gives a lecture in memory of Robert Lowell where tons of world-famous poets and critics speak. Pick and choose your favorites (it's two hours long!).

Check out fellow poet Frank Bidart's intro to, and interpretation of, the poem.

Hear a live recording of Lowell reading "For the Union Dead." Feel free to stop listening at the four-minute mark when the poem ends.

Here's a young Robert Lowell without his iconic glasses.

Lowell's in his element: surrounded by books.

The literary journal Paris Review sits down to discuss teaching, criticism, and of course, poetry with Lowell.

A 1964 New York Times profile on Lowell by American poet Stanley Kunitz.

Publisher FSG puts two of Lowell's most famous collections together in one book.

This is a biography of Lowell's life, written by Paul Mariani in 1996.