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The Mills of the Kavanaughs is the third book of poems written by the American poet Robert Lowell. Like Lowell's previous book, Lord Weary's Castle, the poetry in Kavanaughs was also ornate, formal, dense, and metered.
- Robert Lowell
- 1951
THE MILLS OF THE KAVANAUGHS. (An afternoon in the fall of 1943; a village a little north of Bath, Maine. Anne Kavanaugh is sitting in her garden playing solitaire. She. pretends that the Bible she has placed in the chair opposite her is her opponent. At one end of the garden, there is a stone bedstead, in which.
The Mills of the Kavanaughs by Robert Lowell. Publication date 1946 Publisher New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company Collection inlibrary; printdisabled ...
The title—and longest—poem, “The Mills of the Kavanaughs,” like most of Lowell’s poems, chiefly involves domestic experience. The sweat and stress is familial; the family is the Kavanaughs, Catholics who “came to Maine in the 17th century.”
The Kavanaughs’ Mills were a significant part of the industrial revolution in the United States. Robert Lowell’s 1951 account of the mills provides a detailed summary of their historical legacy. The Kavanaughs were a family of Irish immigrants who established their mills in the early 19th century.
of the title poem from The Mills of the Kavanaughs, to the Boston family portraits repainted from childhood memory, and the intimate revelations of marriage and of mental illness—all part of Life Studies— Lowell frees himself from involvement by confession, and as one reviewer remarked, by seeing like Yeats, . . more enterprise in
L'epico The Mills of the Kavanaughs, scritto nel 1951, non riscuote lo stesso consenso, al contrario di Life Studies del 1959. Le poesie ivi pubblicate sono composte con un mix di versi liberi e metrici, con un linguaggio più informale rispetto ai suoi due libri precedenti.
