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The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979 - Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle (Paperback)
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The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979 - Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle (Paperback)
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Loot Price R530
Discovery Miles 5 300
You Save R57 (10%)
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The Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert
Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of
Lowell's life, a time of personal crisis and creative innovation
for both writers. Lowell's controversial sonnet sequence, The
Dolphin (for which he used Hardwick's letters as a source), and
Hardwick's Sleepless Nights were written during this period.
Centered on the letters they exchanged with each other and with
other members of their circle - writers, intellectuals, friends,
and publishers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Caroline Blackwood,
Mary McCarthy, and Adrienne Rich - the book has the narrative sweep
of a novel, telling the story of the dramatic breakup of their
twenty-one-year marriage and their extraordinary, but late,
reconciliation. Lowell and Hardwick are acutely intelligent
observers of marriages, children, and friends, and of the feelings
that their personal crises gave rise to. The Dolphin Letters,
masterfully edited by Saskia Hamilton, is a debate about the limits
of art - what occasions a work of art, what moral and artistic
license artists have to make use of their lives as material, what
formal innovations such debates give rise to. The crisis of
Lowell's The Dolphin was profoundly affecting to everyone
surrounding him, and Bishop's warning to Lowell - "art just isn't
worth that much" - haunts.
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