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Words in Air

Author : Elizabeth Bishop
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374722870
Total Pages : 1156 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Words in Air written by Elizabeth Bishop and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Presented in Words in Air is the complete correspondence between Bishop and Lowell. 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.

The Letters of Robert Lowell

Author : Robert Lowell
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374530343
Total Pages : 893 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book The Letters of Robert Lowell written by Robert Lowell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 893 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These letters document the evolution of Lowell's work and illuminate another side of his life: his deep friendships with other writers, his manic depression, his marriages to three prose writers, and his involvement with the antiwar movement of the 1960s.

The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979

Author : Robert Lowell
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571357423
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979 written by Robert Lowell and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 - 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's controversial sonnet-sequence The Dolphin (for which he used 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: Essays on Women in Literature and Sleepless Nights: A Novel. 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.

Robert Lowell

Author : Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571282628
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book Robert Lowell written by Ian Hamilton and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1917 into an aristocratic Boston family Robert Lowell was not yet thirty when his first major collection of poems, Lord Weary's Castle, won the Pulitzer Prize. With Life Studies, his third book, he found the intense, highly personal voice that made him the foremost American poet of his generation. He held strong, complex and very public political views. His private life was turbulent, marred by manic depression and troubled marriages. But in this superb biography (first published in 1982) the poet Ian Hamilton illuminates both the life and the work of Lowell with sympathetic understanding and consummate narrative skill. 'Our one consolation for Ian Hamilton's early death is that his work seems to have lived on with undiminished force... The critical prose, in particular, still sets a standard that nobody else comes near.' Clive James

Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire

Author : Kay R. Jamison
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307700275
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire written by Kay R. Jamison and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry, Robert Lowell (1917-1977) put his manic-depressive illness into the public domain. Now Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise to bear on his story, illuminating the relationship between bipolar illness and creativity, and examining how Lowell's illness and the treatment he received came to bear on his work"--

Lost Puritan

Author : Paul L. Mariani
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393313741
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Lost Puritan written by Paul L. Mariani and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award nominee Paul Mariani offers a passionate, highly readable biography of one of America's great poets. Using many of Robert Lowell's unpublished letters as well as interviews with his friends and relatives, Mariani captures the greatness, humor, and heartbreak of this literary giant.

Robert Lowell in Love

Author : Jeffrey Meyers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781625341860
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (418 download)

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Download or read book Robert Lowell in Love written by Jeffrey Meyers and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Lowell was known not only as a great poet but also as a writer whose devotion to his art came at a tremendous personal cost. In this book, his third on Robert Lowell, Jeffrey Meyers examines the poet's impassioned, troubled relationships with the key women in his life: his mother, Charlotte Winslow Lowell; his three wives--Jean Stafford, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Caroline Blackwood; nine of his many lovers; his close women friends--Mary McCarthy, Elizabeth Bishop, and Adrienne Rich; and his most talented students, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath. Lowell's charismatic personality, compelling poetry, and literary fame attracted lovers and friends who were both frightened and excited by his aura of brilliance and danger. He loved the idea of falling in love, and in his recurring manic episodes he needed women at the center of his emotional and artistic life. Each affair became an intense dramatic episode. Though he idealized his loves and encouraged their talents, his frenetic affairs and tortured marriages were always conducted on his own terms. Robert Lowell in Love tells the story of the poet in the grip of love and gives voice to the women who loved him, inspired his poetry, and suffered along with him.

Memoirs

Author : Robert Lowell
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374712182
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Memoirs written by Robert Lowell and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2022-08-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete collection of Robert Lowell’s autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the triumphs and confusions of his adult life. Robert Lowell's Memoirs is an unprecedented literary discovery: the manuscript of Lowell’s lyrical evocation of his childhood, which was written in the 1950s and has remained unpublished until now. Meticulously edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc, it serves as a precursor or companion to his groundbreaking book of poems Life Studies, which signaled a radically new prose-inflected direction in his work, and indeed in American poetry. Memoirs also includes intense depictions of Lowell’s mental illness and his determined efforts to recover. It concludes with Lowell’s reminiscences of other writers, among them 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 his powers of introspection and observation. It provides striking new evidence of the range and brilliance of Lowell’s achievement. Includes black-and-white photographs

The Dolphin

Author : Robert Lowell
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374719977
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book The Dolphin written by Robert Lowell and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 1974 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, The Dolphin was controversial from the beginning: many of the poems include the letters that 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.

On Heaven

Author : Ford Madox Ford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Heaven written by Ford Madox Ford and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

For Lizzie and Harriet

Author : Robert Lowell
Publisher : London : Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571102969
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book For Lizzie and Harriet written by Robert Lowell and published by London : Faber. This book was released on 1973-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poems.

Life Studies and For the Union Dead

Author : Robert Lowell
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374530963
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Life Studies and For the Union Dead written by Robert Lowell and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-10-16 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Becoming a Poet

Author : David Kalstone
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472087204
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Becoming a Poet written by David Kalstone and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebrated study of Elizabeth Bishop's genius, as revealed through her literary friendships

Dear Elizabeth

Author : Sarah Ruhl
Publisher : Oberon Books
ISBN 13 : 9781786827265
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Dear Elizabeth written by Sarah Ruhl and published by Oberon Books. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A play created out of the letters of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, two of America's most brilliant poets, by Susan Smith Blackburn award winner Sarah Ruhl.

With Robert Lowell and His Circle

Author : Kathleen Spivack
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1555537650
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (555 download)

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Download or read book With Robert Lowell and His Circle written by Kathleen Spivack and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1959 Kathleen Spivack won a fellowship to study at Boston University with Robert Lowell. Her fellow students were Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, among others. Thus began a relationship with the famous poet and his circle that would last to the end of his life in 1977 and beyond. Spivack presents a lovingly rendered story of her time among some of the most esteemed artists of a generation. Part memoir, part loose collection of anecdotes, artistic considerations, and soulful yet clear-eyed reminiscences of a lost time and place, hers is an intimate portrait of the often suffering Lowell, the great and near great artists he attracted, his teaching methods, his private world, and the significant legacy he left to his students. Through the story of a youthful artist finding her poetic voice among literary giants, Spivack thoughtfully considers how poets work. She looks at friendships, addiction, despair, perseverance and survival, and how social changes altered lives and circumstances. This is a beautifully written portrait of friends who loved and lived words, and made great beauty together. A touching and deeply revealing look into the lives and thoughts of some of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, With Robert Lowell and His Circle will appeal to writers, students, and thoughtful literary readers, as well as to scholars.

One Art

Author : Elizabeth Bishop
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466889438
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book One Art written by Elizabeth Bishop and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Lowell once remarked, "When Elizabeth Bishop's letters are published (as they will be), she will be recognized as not only one of the best, but one of the most prolific writers of our century." One Art is the magificent confirmation of Lowell's prediction. From several thousand letters, written by Bishop over fifty years—from 1928, when she was seventeen, to the day of her death, in Boston in 1979—Robert Giroux, the poet's longtime friend and editor, has selected over five hundred missives for this volume. In a way, the letters comprise Bishop's autobiography, and Giroux has greatly enhanced them with his own detailed, candid, and highly informative introduction. One Art takes us behind Bishop's formal sophistication and reserve, fully displaying the gift for friendship, the striving for perfection, and the passionate, questing, rigorous spirit that made her a great artist.

The Selected Letters of John Berryman

Author : John Berryman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674976258
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book The Selected Letters of John Berryman written by John Berryman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging, first-of-its-kind selection of Berryman’s correspondence with friends, loved ones, writers, and editors, showcasing the turbulent, fascinating life and mind of one of America’s major poets. The Selected Letters of John Berryman assembles for the first time the poet’s voluminous correspondence. Beginning with a letter to his parents in 1925 and concluding with a letter sent a few weeks before his death in 1972, Berryman tells his story in his own words. Included are more than 600 letters to almost 200 people—editors, family members, students, colleagues, and friends. The exchanges reveal the scope of Berryman’s ambitions, as well as the challenges of practicing his art within the confines of the publishing industry and contemporary critical expectations. Correspondence with Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz, Adrienne Rich, Saul Bellow, and other writers demonstrates Berryman’s sustained involvement in the development of literary culture in the postwar United States. We also see Berryman responding in detail to the work of writers such as Carolyn Kizer and William Meredith and encouraging the next generation—Edward Hoagland, Valerie Trueblood, and others. The letters show Berryman to be an energetic and generous interlocutor, but they also make plain his struggles with personal and familial trauma, at every stage of his career. An introduction by editors Philip Coleman and Calista McRae explains the careful selection of letters and contextualizes the materials within Berryman’s career. Reinforcing the critical and creative interconnectedness of Berryman’s work and personal life, The Selected Letters confirms his place as one of the most original voices of his generation and opens new horizons for appreciating and interpreting his poems.