Robert Lowell was born in 1917 into one of Boston’s oldest and most prominent families. He attended Harvard College for two years before transferring to Kenyon College, where he studied poetry under John Crowe Ransom and received an undergraduate degree in 1940. He took graduate courses at Louisiana State University where he studied with Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks. His first and second books, Land of Unlikeness (1944) and Lord Weary’s Castle (for which he received a Pulitzer Prize in 1946, at the age of thirty),
Set in the not so distant future, the DC Universe is spinning inexorably out of control. The new generation of heroes has lost their moral compass, becoming just as reckless and violent as the villains they fight. With Batman retired, Superman in a self-imposed exile and the rest of the Justice League nowhere to be found, it seems that all hope is lost.
Rosemary’s Baby is a 1967 horror novel by American writer Ira Levin, his second published book. It sold over 4 million copies, “making it the top bestselling horror novel of the 1960s.”
The Castaway is an elegiac poem/ballad written by William Cowper in 1799. The poem is written in rhymed stanzas and gives the account of a crewman who was washed overboard during a storm.
Seven-year-old Davy Murmite is convinced there is a monster living under the steps in the basement. Of course, this is just the imagination of a child. Right?
