Stuart Kelly

Muses, nurses and punch-bags

Jeffrey Meyers includes among the poet’s ‘loves’ not only his many wives and mistresses but his colleagues, students, protégés, mentors and mother

  • Robert Lowell in Love

    Jeffrey Meyers

    Massachusetts U.P., pp. 264

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