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Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop: Boston Marathons
April 17, 2013 He writes only about the Civil War dead: Colonel Robert Gould Shaw and the soldiers from the all-black 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, captured in bronze by August Saint-Gaudens. The sculpture isn’t all that close to the finish … Continue reading
Posted in Americas, Cities, collaboration, Letters, Public art, Twentieth century literature
Tagged 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment, August Saint-Gaudens, Boston Common, Boston Marathon, Castine Maine, Civil War, Elizabeth Bishop, For the Union Dead, March on the Pentagon, New York, Robert Gould Shaw, Robert Lowell
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