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    Beyond the Alps

    by Jacob Bacharach Apr 10, 2017 3 minutes

    Revisited is a series in which writers look back on a work of art they first encountered long ago. Here, Jacob Bacharach revisits Robert Lowell’s poem “Beyond the Alps.”

    I think I must have first read Robert Lowell’s poem “Beyond the Alps” the summer before my junior year of high school, when I was at the Young Writers Workshop at the University of Virginia. I know I bought a copy of his and at one of the used bookstores there. I’d read “For the Union Dead” in some anthology or other, and

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