Which three poets most directly influenced Robert Lowell?
Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman
Allen Tate, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Carlos Williams
Seamus Heaney, Philip Larkin, and Ted Hughes
Robert Frost, E.E. Cummings, and T.S. Eliot
Answer
Robert Lowell was greatly influenced by the poetry of Allen Tate, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Carlos Williams. Tate's work helped Lowell to develop his own poetic voice, while Bishop's poems showed him the possibilities of using a conversational tone in poetry. Williams's poems taught Lowell to pay close attention to the details of the natural world.
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