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9780374185466

The Letters Of Robert Lowell

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  • ISBN13:

    9780374185466

  • ISBN10:

    0374185468

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-06-09
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Summary

Over the course of his life, Robert Lowell impressed those who knew him by his "refusal to be boring on paper" (Christopher Benfey). One of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, Lowell was also a prolific letter writer who corresponded with many of the remarkable writers and thinkers of his day, including Elizabeth Bishop, Edmund Wilson, Robert Kennedy, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Frost. These letters document the evolution of Lowell's work and illuminate another side of the intimate life that was the subject of so many of his poems: his deep friendships with other writers; the manic-depressive illness he struggled to endure and understand; his marriages to three prose writers; and his engagement with politics and the antiwar movement of the 1960s. The Letters of Robert Lowellshows us, in many cases for the first time, the private thoughts and passions of a figure unrivaled for his influence on American letters.

Author Biography

Robert Lowell (1917-77) was the renowned and controversial author of many books of poetry, including Day by Day (FSG, 1977), For the Union Dead (FSG, 1964), and Life Studies (FSG, 1959). FSG published his Collected Poems in 2003.

Table of Contents

Introduction: "I Was Naked Without My Line-Ends" vii
A Note on the Text and Selection xxiii
Chronology xxv
1. 1936-1940 1(26)
Education at Harvard and Kenyon Colleges
Marriage to Jean Stafford
2. 1940-1946 27(28)
Writing of Land of Unlikeness and Lord Weary's Castle
Imprisonment for refusing military induction
3. 1946-1949 55(78)
Separation from Stafford
Writing of The Mills of the Kavanaughs
4. 1949-1954 133(74)
Preparation of Poems 1938-1949
Marriage to Elizabeth Hardwick
5. 1954-1959 207(142)
Writing of Life Studies and Imitations
Birth of Harriet Lowell
6. 1959-1966 349(132)
Writing of Imitations, The Old Glory, Phaedra, For the Union Dead, and Near the Ocean
7. 1967-1970 481(54)
Writing of Notebook 1967-68
8. 1970-1911 535(140)
Writing of The Dolphin and Day by Day
Separation from Hardwick
Birth of Sheridan Lowell
Marriage to Caroline Blackwood
Notes 675(130)
Lowell's Addresses 805(2)
Location ofLetters and Manuscripts 807(4)
Selected Bibliography 811(6)
Acknowledgments 817(2)
Index 819

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