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Memoirs (Paperback)
Robert Lowell; Edited by Steven Gould Axelrod, Grzegorz Kosc
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Robert Lowell, with Elizabeth Bishop, stands apart as the greatest
American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century--and
"Life Studies and For the Union Dead "stand as among his most
important volumes. In "Life Studies," which was first published in
1959, Lowell moved away from the formality of his earlier poems and
started writing in a more confessional vein. The title poem of "For
the Union Dead "concerns the death of the Civil War hero (and
Lowell ancestor) Robert Gould Shaw, but it also largely centers on
the contrast between Boston's idealistic past and its debased
present at the time of its writing, in the early 1960's.
Throughout, Lowell addresses contemporaneous subjects in a voice
and style that themselves push beyond the accepted forms and
constraints of the time.
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The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973 is an expanded edition of the
Pulitzer Prize-winning provocative poetry collection that crossed
the line between art and life. I have sat and listened to too many
words of the collaborating muse, and plotted perhaps too freely
with my life, not avoiding injury to others, not avoiding injury to
myself-- to ask compassion . . . this book, half fiction, an eelnet
made by man for the eel fighting my eyes have seen what my hand
did. Winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Robert Lowell's
The Dolphin was controversial from the beginning: many of the poems
include letters from Robert Lowell's wife, the celebrated writer
and critic Elizabeth Hardwick, wrote to him after he left her for
the English socialite and writer Caroline Blackwood. He was warned
by many, among them Elizabeth Bishop, that "art just isn't worth
that much." Nevertheless, these poems are a powerful document of an
impulsive love, and a moving record of Lowell's change from one
life and marriage in America to a new life on new terms with a new
family in England, rendered with the stunning technical power and
control for which he was so celebrated. This new edition, which
follows the 1973 edition, includes scans of the pages of Lowell's
original manuscript, giving us a look into the brilliant and
complicated mind of one of our most beloved and distinguished
poets.
Of the twenty chapters that make up these Memoirs, seventeen appear
here in print for the first time, unearthed by the editors from the
Harvard Archive. They include intense depictions of Lowell's mental
illness and his efforts to recover, and conclude with reminiscences
of other writers - T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, John
Berryman, Anne Sexton, Hannah Arendt, and Sylvia Plath. Memoirs
demonstrates Lowell's expansive gifts as a prose stylist and
provide further evidence of the range and brilliance of his
achievement.
'THE BEST AMERICAN POET OF HIS GENERATION.' - TIME Gathered on the
occasion of Robert Lowell's one hundredth birthday, New Selected
Poems offers a fresh and illuminating representation of one of the
great careers in twentieth-century poetry. The renowned and
controversial author of many books of poems, plays, and
translations, Lowell was one of the United States' most honoured
poets, winning the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1947 and 1974, the
National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award.
His ongoing interrogation of his family legacy, his personal
struggle with manic depression, and his mastery of the tradition of
poetry in English formed the groundbreaking autobiographical
foundation of Life Studies (1959) and the books that followed it,
including For the Union Dead (1964), Near the Ocean (1967), History
(1973), and Day by Day (1977). Katie Peterson's incisive selection
of Lowell's poems draws attention to 'the perishability of life,
its twinned quality of fragility and repetition, as framed by the
structured evanescence of daily consciousness.' Lowell's own
intense dramas and struggles are the substrate he drew on in his
restless search to make sense of, and fix, shape-shifting
experience - not his, but ours. As Peterson says, Lowell was
'constitutionally immune to any stultifying permanence either of
form or of spirit.' Her brilliant new reading of Lowell shows us
his work constantly breaking, renewing, transforming, as he strives
restlessly, over and over, to find an elusive unity.
The Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowell's life (1970 to 1977), a time of personal crisis and creative innovation for both writers. Centred 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 - this book has the narrative sweep of a novel, telling the story of the dramatic breakup of Lowell and Hardwick's twenty-one-year marriage and their extraordinary, but late, reconciliation.
Lowell's sonnet sequence The Dolphin (for which he controversially adapted Hardwick's letters as a source) and his last book, Day by Day, were written during this period, as were Hardwick's influential books Seduction and Betrayal: Women and Literature and Sleepless Nights. Lowell and Hardwick are acutely intelligent observers of marriage, children, friends and the feelings that their personal tribulations gave rise to.
The Dolphin Letters, edited by Saskia Hamilton, is a debate about the limits of art - what occasions a work of art, and what moral and artistic licence artists have to make use of their lives and the lives of others as material. The crisis of Lowell's The Dolphin was profoundly affecting to everyone around him, and Bishop's warning that 'art just isn't worth that much' haunts us today.
Life Studies was first published in 1959. 'In Life Studies the
pathos of the local colour of the past - of the lives and deaths of
his father and mother and grandfather and uncle, crammed full of
their own varied and placid absurdity - is the background that sets
off the desperate knife-edged absurdity of the jailed conscientious
objector among gangsters and Jehovah's witnesses, the private
citizen returning to his baby, older now, from the mental hospital.
He sees things as being part of history; if you say about his poor
detailedly eccentric, trust-fund Lowells: 'but they weren't,' he
can answer: 'They are now.'' Randall Jarrell
The collected work of America's pre-eminent post-war poet.
Edmund Wilson wrote of Robert Lowell that he was the 'only recent American poet - if you don't count Eliot - who writes successfully in the language and cadence and rhyme of the resounding English tradition'.
Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled a comprehensive edition of Lowell's poems, from the early triumph of Lord Weary's Castle, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, through the brilliant wilfulness of his Imitations of Sappho, Baudelaire, Rilke and other masters, to the late spontaneity of his History, winner of another Pulitzer, and of his last book of poems, Day by Day. This volume includes several poems never previously collected, as well as a selection of Lowell's intriguing drafts.
As Randall Jarrell said, 'You feel before reading any new poem of his the uneasy expectation of perhaps encountering a masterpiece'. Lowell's Collected Poems offers the first opportunity to view the entire range of his astonishing verse.
Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that
"you ha ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend." The
feeling was mutual. Bishop said that conversation with Lowell left
her feeling "picked up again to the proper table-land of poetry,"
and she once begged him, "Please never stop writing me
letters--they always manage to make me feel like my higher self
(I've been re-reading Emerson) for several days." Neither ever
stopped writing letters, from their first meeting in 1947 when both
were young, newly launched poets until Lowell's death in 1977. The
substantial, revealing--and often very funny--interchange that they
produced stands as a remarkable collective achievement, notable for
its sustained conversational brilliance of style, its wealth of
literary history, its incisive snapshots and portraits of people
and places, and its delicious literary gossip, as well as for the
window it opens into the unfolding human and artistic drama of two
of America's most beloved and influential poets.
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Robert Lowell Collected Poems (Paperback)
Robert Lowell; Introduction by Frank Bidart; Edited by Frank Bidart, David Gewanter
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Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled the definitive
edition of Robert Lowell's work, from his first, impossible-to-find
collection, "Land of Unlikeness"; to the early triumph of "Lord
Weary's Castle," winner of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize; to the
brilliant willfulness of his versions of poems by Sappho,
Baudelaire, Rilke, Montale, and other masters in "Imitations"; to
the late spontaneity of "The Dolphin," winner of another Pulitzer
Prize; to his last, most searching book, "Day by Day." This volume
also includes poems and translations never previously collected,
and a selection of drafts that demonstrate the poet's constant
drive to reimagine his work. "Collected Poems "at last offers
readers the opportunity to take in, in its entirety, one of the
great careers in twentieth-century poetry.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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Imitations (Paperback)
Robert Lowell
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Not quite translations--yet something much more, much richer, than
mere tributes to their original versions--the poems in "Imitations
"reflect Lowell's conceptual, historical, literary, and aesthetic
engagements with a diverse range of voices from the Western canon.
Moving chronologically from Homer to Pasternak--and including such
master poets en route as Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Rilke, and
Montale--the fascinating and hugely informed pieces in this book
are themselves meant to be read as "a whole," according to Lowell's
telling Introduction, "a single volume, a small anthology of
European poetry."
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Day by Day (Paperback)
Robert Lowell
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The last book published before the poet's death, Day by Day was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award prize for poetry in 1977 and cements Lowell's reputation as one of the great poetic voices of the century.
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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Robert Lowell
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