Robert Lowell: A Biography
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Gordon, Caroline, see Tate, Caroline Gordon
Gowrie, Grey, 1, 2, 3, 4 Lowell’s breakdowns and, 1
on Lowell’s politics, 1
Gowrie, Xandra, 1, 2 on Lowell’s manic behavior, 1
“Grandparents” (Lowell), 1
“Grass Stroke” (Lowell), 1
Graves, Robert, 1
Greenslet, Ferris, 1
Greenways Nursing Home, 1, 2, 3, 4
Gruliow, Leo, 1
Guinness, Bryan, 1
Guinness, Desmond, 1
Guinness Poetry Prize, 1
Gunn, Thomson W., 1, 2 on Imitations, 1
Gustafson, Ralph, 1
Guston, Philip, 1
Haberly, Lloyd, 1
Hale, Whitney, 1
Hall, Donald, 1, 2
Harcourt, Brace, 1, 2
Hardwick, Elizabeth: on Ames, 1
background of, 1
at Barnard, 1, 2
on Berenson, 1
on Boston, 1
in Brazil, 1
on Charlotte Lowell, 1, 2, 3
on Charlotte Lowell’s death, 1
child of, see Lowell, Harriet Winslow
Communism and, 1
as critic, 1, 2
in Dolphin, 1, 2
Duxbury house of, 1, 2, 3, 4
European sojourn of, 1
in founding of New York Review of Books, 1
on Italy, 1
on Lowell’s American essays, 1
on Lowell’s attitude toward psychoanalysis, 1
Lowell’s breakdowns and, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17
on Lowell’s death, 1
Lowell’s depressions and, 1, 2
Lowell’s divorce from, 1
Lowell’s engagement to, 1
on Lowell’s extra-marital interests, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
on Lowell’s father’s death, 1
Lowell’s first meetings with, 1
Lowell’s marriage to, 1
on Lowell’s models for “Skunk Hour,” 1
in Lowell’s move to England, 1, 2
Lowell’s reconciliation with, 1, 2
in Lowell’s recuperative periods, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
on Lowell’s relationship with Roethke, 1
Lowell’s separations from, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
on marriage to Lowell, 1, 2, 3
Moore’s correspondence with, 1, 2
as “mother-figure” to Lowell, 1
in move to Boston, 1
in move to New York, 1
in Salzburg, 1
scholarly work of, 1
Tate’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4
in Vetra affair, 1, 2
at Yaddo, 1
Hardy, Thomas, 1
Harper’s 1
Harvard Advocate, 1, 2
“Harvard College in the War” (Holmes), 1
Harvard University: Kennedy at, 1
Lowell at, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
Lowell’s papers deposited at, 1
“Hawthorne” (Lowell), 1
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1 as prose source for Lowell, 1, 2
“Heart’s Needle” (Snodgrass), 1, 2
Hecht, Anthony, 1
Heine, Heinrich, 1
Hellman, Lillian, 1, 2, 3, 4
Herald Tribune, 1
Herald Tribune’s Bookweek, 1
“Her Dead Brother” (Lowell), 1
Hersey, John, 1, 2
Heston, Charlton, 1
High Wind in Jamaica, A (Hughes), 1
Hika, 1
Hillyer, Robert, 1
Hiroshima (Hersey), 1
Histoire de l’Art (Faure), 1
History (Lowell), 1, 2 critical responses to, 1
Hitler, Adolf, 1, 2, 3 Lowell’s fixation on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Lowell’s lecture on, 1, 2
Lowell’s poem on, 1
Ho Chi Minh, 1
Hochman, Sandra, Lowell’s affair with, 1
Hoffman, Daniel, 1
Hogan’s Goat (Alfred), 1
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 1, 2
Holt, Henry, 1
“Holy Innocents, The” (Lowell), 1
“Holy Matrimony” (Lowell), 1
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (Berryman), 1
“Home” (Lowell), 1
“Home After Three Months Away” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3
“Home Front, The” (Stafford), Lowell as model for, 1
Homer, 1, 2, 3 Lowell’s translated version of, 1, 2
Hook, Sidney, 1
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1, 2, 3, 4
Horace, Lowell’s translated version of, 1
Howe, David, 1
Howe, Irving, 1
Howe, Julia Ward, 1
Hudson Review, 1, 2, 3, 4
Hughes, Olwyn, 1
Hughes, Richard, 1
Hughes, Ted, 1
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (Pound), 1
Hugo, Victor, Lowell’s translatated version of, 1
Humphrey, Hubert H., 1, 2
Humphries, Rolfe, 1
Hutchinson, Anne (ancestor), 1
Hutchinson, Elizabeth (ancestor), 1
Idiot, The (Dostoevsky), 1
Illich, Ivan, 1, 2
Imitations (Lowell), 1, 2 critical responses to, 1
as poetic vs. literal translation, 1
title chosen for, 1
“Inauguration Day: January 1953” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3, 4
“Influx of Poets, An” (Stafford), 1 Lowells as models for, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
“In Memory of Arthur Winslow” (Lowell), 1, 2
“In Praise of Diversity” (McGinley), 1
Institute for Contemporary Arts, London, 1
Institute for Living, 1, 2, 3, 4
“Interior Castle, The” (Stafford), 1
“In the Cage” (Lowell), 1, 2
“In the Ward” (Lowell), 1
Iowa, University of, 1, 2, 3
Irish Georgian Society, 1
Isherwood, Christopher, 1
James, William, 1
Jarrell, Mary, 1
Jarrell, Randall, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 on Benito Cereno, 1
Berryman’s elegy for, 1
death of, 1, 2, 3
difficult personality of, 1, 2, 3
on Land of Unlikeness, 1
on Lord Weary’s Castle, 1, 2
as Lowell’s college roommate, 1
Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Lowell’s view of, 1
in Lowell’s will, 1
on meeting Pound, 1
on Mills of the Kavanaughs, 1, 2, 3
nervous breakdown of, 1
Jenson, Oliver, 1
John of the Cross, Saint, 1
Johnson, Lady Bird, 1, 2, 3
Johnson, Lyndon B., 1, 2, 3 Lowell’s letter to, 1
in Lowell’s manic delusions, 1
in Presidential primaries (1968), 1, 2
in Vietnam War, 1, 2, 3, 4
“Waking Early Sunday Morning” and, 1, 2
in White House Festival of the Arts, 1
Yale’s NEA grant and, 1
“Jonah” (Lowell), 1 “Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts” (Lowell), 2
Joyce, James, 1
Jung, Carl, 1, 2
Justice, Department of, 1, 2
Juvenal, Lowell’s translated version of, 1
Kalstone, David, 1
Kant, Immanuel, 1
Kay, George, 1, 2
Kazin, Alfred, 1, 2
Kennedy, Jacqueline, 1 Lowell’s friendship with, 1, 2
in Robert Kennedy’s Presidential bid (1968), 1
Kennedy, John F., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 inauguration of, 1
at Malraux dinner, 1
Kennedy, Robert F.: assassination of, 1
personality of, 1, 2
Presidential bid of (1968), 1
Kenyon College, 1, 2, 3, 4 Douglass House of, 1
Kenyon Review, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Kenyon School of Letters, 1, 2
Kermode, Frank, 1
Kettering Foundation, 1
Kirstein, Lincoln, 1
Kissinger, Henry, 1
Kittredge, Fanny, 1
Kunitz, Stanley, 1, 2, 3 on Dolphin, 1
Labe, Louis, 1
Laforgue, Jules, 1
Land of Unlikeness (Lowell), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 critical responses to, 1, 2
Lanier, Sidney, 1, 2
Larkin, Philip, 1, 2, 3 on Life Studies, 1
poetic style of, 1
Larner, Jeremy, 1
“Last Walk?” (Lowell), 1
Laughlin, James, 1
Law, William, 1
Leopardi, Giacomo, Lowell’s translated version of, 1
“Lesson, The” (Lowell), 1
“Leviathan” (Lowell), 1
Lewis, Cecil Day, 1, 2, 3
Lewis, R. W. B., 1
Lewis, Wyndham, 1, 2
Library of Congress, Poetry Consultant position at, 1, 2
Life magazine, 1
Life Studies (Lowell), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 critical responses to, 1
inconsistency of style in, 1
as innovative, 1, 2, 3
National Book Award won for, 1
royalties from, 1
structure of, 1
Thompson on, 1
Williams on, 1
“Life Studies” (Lowell), 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1, 2
Lipton, Lawrence, 1
lithium carbonate, 1
London Magazine, 1, 2
London Observer, 1, 2, 3
London Times, 1, 2
“Loneliness” (Lowell), 1
Lord Weary’s Castle (Lowell), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 critical responses to, 1
Jarrell on, 1
poetic style refined in, 1
publication of, 1
Ransom on, 1
translated poetry in, 1
Louisiana State University, 1
Lowell, A. Lawrence (cousin), 1, 2, 3 Robert’s correspondence with, 1
in Sacco and Vanzetti conviction, 1
Lowell, Alfred Putnam (cousin), 1, 2
Lowell, Amy, 1
Lowell, Charlotte Winslow (mother), 1, 2, 3, 4 courtship and marriage of, 1
Dawson as viewed by, 1, 2
death of, 1
Dick as viewed by, 1, 2
Hardwick’s correspondence with, 1, 2
husband’s death and, 1
marital discontents of, 1, 2, 3
as Moore’s assistant, 1, 2
Moore’s correspondence with, 1, 2
Moore’s relationship with, 1, 2
pregnancy of, 1
psychotherapy as viewed by, 1
in Rapallo, 1
Robert’s breakdowns and, 1, 2
Robert’s car accident and, 1
in Robert’s childhood religiosexuality, 1
Robert’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Robert’s draft evasion and, 1
in Robert’s will, 1
Stafford as viewed by, 1, 2, 3
Lowell, Cornelius (ancestor), 1
Lowell, Guy (ancestor), 1
Lowell, Harriet (ancestor), 1
Lowell, Harriet Winslow (daughter), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 birth of, 1
early childhood of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2
parents’ separation and, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Lowell, James, 1
Lowell, James Russell (ancestor), 1, 2, 3, 4
Lowell, Percival, 1, 2
Lowell, Rebecca (ancestor), 1
Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, I (great-grandfather), 1, 2, 3
Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, III (father), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 background of, 1
courtship and marriage of, 1
death of, 1
Dick as viewed by, 1
Hardwick as viewed by, 1, 2
hostility to Robert of, 1, 2, 3
ill health of, 1, 2
money as viewed by, 1
Moore’s view of, 1
naval career of, 1, 2
Robert as viewed by, 1, 2
Robert’s attack on, 1
Robert’s car accident and, 1
Robert’s correspondence with, 1
on Robert’s psychotherapy, 1
Stafford as viewed by, 1, 2, 3
will of, 1
Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, IV: American Academy of Arts and Letters awards to, 1, 2
autobiographical writings of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
“bear-characters” of, 1, 2, 3, 4
in Boston Psychopathic Hospital, 1, 2
at Brimmer School, 1
Caligula/Caliban nickname of, 1, 2
car accident of, 1
Catholic conversion of, 1
Catholicism abandoned by, 1, 2, 3
Catholicism as viewed by, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
childhood belligerence of, 1, 2
children as viewed by, 1
children of, see Lowell, Harriet Winslow; Lowell, Sheridan
as college football player, 1
in Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital, 1
Communism as viewed by, 1, 2
on conformity, 1
on “cooked” vs. “raw” poetry, 1
critical pieces by, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
death of, 1
depressions of, 1, 2, 3, 4
diagnoses of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
divorces of, see Hardwick, Elizabeth; Stafford, Jean
dolphin obsession of, 1
draft evasion of, 1, 2
dramatizations by, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
drinking of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
drug therapy of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Duxbury house of, 1, 2, 3, 4
early childhood of, 1
early poetic style of, 1, 2, 3
early publications of, 1, 2
engagements of, see Buckman, Gertrude; Dawson, Carley; Dick, Anne Tuckerman; Hardwick, Elizabeth; Madonia, Giovanna; Stafford, Jean
“enthusiasm” of, 1, 2, 3
Episcopalian Church rejoined by, 1
eschatological viewpoint of, 1, 2
European sojourn of, 1
family origins explored by, 1, 2, 3
father’s death and, 1
first published poem of, 1
Ford Foundation grant to, 1
as Ford’s secretary, 1
on God, 1
in Greenways Nursing Home, 1, 2, 3, 4
Guggenheim fellowship awarded to, 1
Guinness Poetry Prize won by, 1
at Harvard, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 11, 12
Harvard fellowship sought by, 1
heart illness of, 1, 2, 3, 4
Hitler fixation of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Hollywood offers to, 1
in Institute for Living, 1, 2, 3, 4
intellectual awakening of, 1
in Israel, 1
jail term of, 1, 2
in Jewish Hospital, 1
at Kenyon College, 1, 2
in Kreuzlingen sanatorium, 1
at Library of Congress, 1, 2
love poems of, 1
at LSU, 1
in McCarthy’s Presidential bid (1968), 1, 2
in McLean Hospital, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
marriages of, see Blackwood, Lady Caroline; Hardwick, Elizabeth; Stafford, Jean
in Massachusetts General Hospital, 1
in Mexico, 1
on mis-spelling, 1
as model for “An Influx of Poets,” 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
as model for Crystal Sepulcher, 1
as model for “Home Front,” 1
as model for “1939,” 1
mother’s death and, 1, 2
in Munich hospital, 1
musical interests of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Nantucket retreat of (1935), 1, 2
Nantucket retreat of (1936), 1
National Book Award address of, 1
nervous breakdowns of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
at New School, 1
on nuclear warfare, 1
Obie award won by, 1
order craved by, 1
parents recollected by, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
in Payne Whitney, 1, 2, 3, 4
poetic meter considered by, 1, 2, 3, 4
poetic style of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
on poetic translations, 1
on poetry, 1, 2, 3, 4
political poetry of, 1, 2
political views of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
post-conversion remarriage of, 1
in Pound affair, 1
in Priory Hospital, 1
prose period of, 1, 2
psychotic episode described by, 1, 2
as public speaker, 1, 2, 3
Pulitzer Prize won by, 1
“reconversion” of, 1, 2
recuperative periods of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
religion vs. sexuality in, 1, 2, 3, 4
religious mania of, 1, 2
in return to Boston, 1
at Rivers school, 1
in St. Andrews Hospital, 1
at St. Mark’s school, 1, 2, 3
in Salzburg, 1
sexual initiation of, 1, 2
slovenliness of, 1, 2
sonnets of, 1, 2, 3, 4
in South America, 1
Southern sojourn of, 1, 2
teaching methods of, 1, 2, 3
theatrical interests of, 1, 2,
at University of Cincinnati, 1, 2
at University of Iowa, 1, 2, 3
valedictory address of, 1
as “victim hero,” 1
violence of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
war as viewed by, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
will drafted by, 1
on women, 1, 2, 3
in Yaddo affair, 1, 2
Lowell, Sheridan (son): birth of, 1, 2
early childhood of, 1, 2
Lowells and Their Seven Worlds, The (Greenslet), 1