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Robert Lowell
Fresh hearts that failed three thousand years ago. With other things (1860). This book, Fresh hearts that failed three thousand years ago, by Robert Lowell, is a replication of a…
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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…
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The Collected Poems of Robert Lowell brings together, for the first time, the work of America’s pre-eminent post-war poet.
Robert Lowell’s family memoir, first published in 1959.
The renowned and controversial author of many books of poems, plays, and translations, Robert Lowell was one of the United States’ most honoured poets, winning the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry…
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…
Jerome Mazzaro, Comp
The Achievement of Robert Lowell, 1939-1959 is a literary analysis and critical study of the early works of Robert Lowell, a prominent American poet. Written by Jerome Mazzaro, the book…
Alan Williamson
Williamson examines Robert Lowell’s poetic expression of his discontent with American civilization.
Richard Tillinghast
A critical memoir of Robert Lowell by a friend and former student who knew him well
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Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Robert Lowell’s For the Union Dead, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical…
Grzegorz Kosc,Jacek Fisiak,Grzegorz Kosc
With some features of an intellectual biography, this book offers a radical re-examination of Robert Lowell’s entire oeuvre. The author finds in it a sustained, if erratic, effort to move…
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Grzegorz Koś ć,Jacek Fisiak (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan),Grzegorz Kosc
William Doreski
In the two decades that have passed since Robert Lowell’s death, Robert Lowell’s Shifting Colors is the first critical survey of the poet’s aesthetic efforts to make personal vision and…
New essays providing fresh insights into the great 20th-century American poet Lowell, his writings, and his struggles.
A Study Guide for Robert Lowell’s The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Here is a book that shows how Lowell was both a charismatic figure and a trial to his friends. His relationships were tense, and although the friends he made in…
Robert Lowell Goller
The town of Aurora was settled in 1804 and soon became a social and commercial center in Western New York. Visitors came to Aurora to get a glimpse of world-famous…
Nestled along the banks of Cazenovia Creek, East Aurora is a cultural center of western New York State that has flourished because of the diverse talents of its people. Native…
David Kalstone
A celebrated study of Elizabeth Bishop’s genius, as revealed through her literary friendships
Elizabeth Bishop,Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend. This collection spans letters from their first meeting in…
Robert Lowell,Robert Giroux
This is the first collection of Robert Lowell’s poetry which reveals a writer of unmistakeable brilliance who has a profound insight into the human condition.
Sarah Ruhl, Playwright
From playwright Sarah Ruhl, Dear Elizabeth is a moving, innovative play based on one of the greatest correspondences in literary history–the letters of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.
From 1947…
Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Robert Lowell has left a prodigious literary legacy that includes several verse plays as well as numerous volumes of…
Christopher Grobe
The story of a new style of art-and a new way of life-in postwar America: confessionalism.
What do midcentury confessional poets have in common with today’s reality TV stars? They…
When first introduced to Robert Lowell in 1947, Elizabeth Bishop wrote that ‘he was living in a basement room on Third Avenue . The letters also record the complications of…
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Robert Lowell,Elizabeth Hardwick
The illuminating letters of Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell, including the dramatic breakup of their 21-year marriage and their extraordinary reconciliation.
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D. Furr
Through an analysis of a wide range of commercial and amateur recordings, this book describes how and why poetry was recorded in the U.S., from the 1930’s through the mid-century…
Sarah Payne Stuart
An enchanting memoir–at turns sad and hilarious–is offered by novelist Sarah Payne Stuart about her extraordinary Boston Brahmin family, whose most famous member is the legendary poet Robert Lowell. Illustrations.
Jay Martin
Robert Lowell - American Writers 92 was first published in 1970. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the…
Robert Lowell (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)
Title: The new priest in Conception Bay.Author: Robert LowellPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500–1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets…
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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…
…Over 200 works, culled from each of Lowell’s books of verse… are a perfectly chosen representation of ‘the greatest American poet of the mid-century.’ –Richard Poirier, Book Week.
Peter Davison
This extraordinary account, by a participant who knew them all, offers vivid reminiscences of Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Sylvia Plath, Richard Wilbur, Anne Sexton, W.S. Merwin, and many…
Hartmut Heep
A traditional reading of Rilke’s oeuvre is based on the assumption that Rainer Maria Rilke is a German poet. For decades however, Rilke has left his mark on American poetry…
Brad Lowell Stone
This is the only book-length intellectual biography of sociologist Robert Nisbet (1913-1996). It is now available in quality paperback.
