Excellent video. Is there a slight Southern vein in Lowell's accent? Or is he so Yankee posh Brahmin Boston that it only seems that way?
Neither poet did much good for their poetry out loud. They were not good public readers. At least not in this video. They both read their poetry like it's prose. Wilbur's poetry and some of Lowell's deserve as beautiful a rendering through the ear as they achieve through the eye.
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