The Fading Smile Poets in Boston, 1955-1960 from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath

He came to know Robert Lowell (whose poems and private disasters dominated the period) and Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Richard Wilbur, Anne Sexton, W.S. Merwin, and others who, closely bound together in friendship or rivalry or both, defined the shape of American poetry at mid-century.