{"id":586,"date":"2024-08-16T11:06:51","date_gmt":"2024-08-16T16:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/literaryletters\/?p=586"},"modified":"2025-04-17T12:17:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T17:17:28","slug":"letter-from-robert-lowell-to-peter-taylor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/literaryletters\/letter-from-robert-lowell-to-peter-taylor-2\/","title":{"rendered":"[Letter from Robert Lowell to Peter Taylor]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robert Lowell won several significant awards for his poetry, including the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize, but he states in this letter that &#8220;the whole machinery of prize awarding is absurd.&#8221; Nevertheless, he hoped that Peter Taylor would win a prize that would cover all of his &#8220;needs and purposes&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a 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