by Ian Hamilton
Stern, Richard, 1
Stevens, Roger, 1
Stevens, Wallace, 1
Stevenson, Adlai, 1, 2
Stillman, Edgar, 1
Stillman, Joan, 1
Styron, William, 1, 2
“Summer Tides” (Lowell), 1
Syndics (Rembrandt), 1
Tate, Allen, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 at Benfolly, 1, 2
Catholic conversion of, 1
Charlotte Lowell as viewed by, 1
Fitzgerald’s correspondence with, 1
Fugitives and, 1
Hardwick and, 1, 2
Hardwick’s correspondence with, 1, 2
on Life Studies, 1
Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Lowell’s depression and, 1
Lowell’s “looser” style rejected by, 1, 2, 3
on Lowell’s mental state, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Moore’s correspondence with, 1
at Olivet College, 1
in Paris, 1
poetic style of, 1, 2, 3
as Pound’s champion, 1
on Ransom, 1
Stafford’s correspondence with, 1
on title for Imitations, 1
Tate, Caroline Gordon, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Fitzgerald’s correspondence with, 1
Lowell’s correspondence with, 1
Lowell’s depression and, 1
Lowell’s religious mania and, 1, 2
Tate, Isabella Gardner, see Gardner, Isabella
Tavern Club, Boston, 1
Taylor, Eleanor, 1 Hardwick’s correspondence with, 1
Stafford’s correspondence with, 1
Taylor, Peter, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 autobiographical writings of, 1, 2
Charlotte Lowell’s correspondence with, 1
Hardwick’s correspondence with, 1
on Lowell as public speaker, 1
Lowell’s breakdowns and, 1
as Lowell’s college roommate, 1, 2
Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23
on Lowell’s death, 1
Lowell’s poem to, 1
in Lowell’s will, 1
Stafford’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Tate’s correspondence with, 1
Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 1, 2
“Terminal Days at Beverly Farms” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3
“Thanksgiving’s Over” (Lowell), 1
“Thanks-Offering for Recovery” (Lowell), 1
Thayer, William Greenough, 1
Theatre de Lys, New York City, 1
Therese of Lisieux, Saint, 1
Thomas, Dylan, 1, 2, 3
Thompson, John, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 on Boston, 1
on Life Studies, 1
on Lowell’s “bear-characters,” 1
Lowell’s breakdowns and, 1, 2, 3
Thorazine, 1
Thoreau, Henry David, 1, 2
“Those Before Us” (Lowell), 1
Tillinghast, Richard, 1, 2
Time magazine, 1, 2, 3
“To Ann Adden” (Lowell), 1, 2 see also “Waking in the Blue” (Lowell)
“To Delmore Schwartz” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3, 4
“To His Coy Mistress” (Marvell), 1
“To Mother” (Lowell), 1
“To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3, 4
Tovey, Donald, 1
Trask, Katrina, 1, 2
Trask, Spencer, 1, 2
Trehman, Carl, 1
Trilling, Diana, 1
Trilling, Lionel, 1
Troilus and Cressida (Shakespeare), 1
“Two Cultures, The” (Snow), 1
“Two Weeks Vacation, The” (Lowell), 1, 2
“Ulysses and Circe” (Lowell), 1
UNESCO art conference, 1
Ungaretti, Giuseppe, 1
Union of Soviet Writers conference, 1
“Unwanted” (Lowell), 1
Valéry, Paul, 1
Vanden Heuvel, William, 1
Vanderbilt University, 1
Van Doren, Mark, 1, 2
Van Leuwen, Huyk, 1
Varese, Edgar, 1
Vendler, Helen, 1, 2, 3, 4 on Day by Day, 1
Verlaine, Paul, Lowell’s translated version of, 1
Vetra, Vija, 1, 2 Lowell’s abandonment of, 1, 2
Lowell’s affair with, 1
Lowell’s first meeting with, 1
Vietnam War, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 campaign against, 1, 2
draft resistance in, 1, 2
Johnson in, 1, 2, 3, 4
Villon, François, Lowell’s translated version of, 1, 2, 3
Vindex, 1
Voznesensky, Andrei, 1
“Waking Early Sunday Morning” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3 early drafts of, 1
Johnson in, 1, 2
as political poem, 1
“Waking in the Blue” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 see also “To Ann Adden” (Lowell)
“Walking in a Cornfield, After Refusing Her Letter” (Lowell), 1
Wallace, George, 1
War: A Justification (Lowell), 1
Warren, Austin, 1
Warren, Robert Penn, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 on Bollingen Prize committee, 1
as Lowell’s teacher, 1, 2
“Water” (Lowell), 1
Webern, Anton, 1
Weidenfeld, George, 1
Wellesley College, 1
West, Christopher, 1
“What We Were” (Lowell), 1
Wheelwright, John, 1
White House: Arts Festival of, 1, 2
Malraux dinner at, 1
Whitman, Walt, 1, 2
“Whitsun Weddings, The” (Larkin), 1
Who Owns America, 1
Wilbur, Richard, 1
Williams, Oscar, 1
Williams, William Carlos, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4
on Mills of the Kavanaughs, 1
“natural speech” style of, 1, 2
Objectivism and, 1
Williamson, Alan, 1
Wilson, Edmund, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4
Winslow, Arthur (grandfather), 1
Winslow, Charlotte (aunt), 1
Winslow, Devereux (uncle), 1, 2
Winslow, Edward, II (ancestor), 1
Winslow, Harriet (cousin), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 Hardwick’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Lowell’s relationship with, 1, 2
Winslow, John (ancestor), 1
Winslow, Sarah (aunt), 1, 2
Winslow, Sarah Stark (grandmother), 1 Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4
“Winter in Dunbarton” (Lowell), 1
Winters, Ivor, 1
Winter Sea (Lowell), 1
“With Caroline at the Air Terminal” (Lowell), 1
Women’s Wear Daily, 1
Wonder, Jack, 1
“Words for Hart Crane” (“Epitaph of a Fallen Poet”) (Lowell), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Wordsworth, William, 1, 2
World’s Body, The (Ransom), 1, 2
World War I, 1
World War II: America’s entry into, 1
Lowell’s draft evasion in, 1
Wozzeck (Berg), 1
Wreck of the Magyar, The (Beer), 1
Wyatt, Sir Thomas, 1
Yaddo writers’ colony, 1, 2, 3 alleged political corruption at, 1, 2
FBI investigation of, 1
Lowell’s visits to, 1, 2, 3, 4
physical appearance of, 1
as sanctuary, 1
Yale Drama School, 1
Yale Review, 1, 2, 3
Yeats, John Butler, 1
Yenser, Stephen, 1
Young, Dudley, 1
Young, Marguerite, 1
Special acknowledgment is made to the following libraries for permission to use material in thei
r collections: The Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University; the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection, New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the Kenyon College Archives, Chalmers Memorial Library; the Richard Chase Papers, Rare Book and Manuscripts Library, Columbia University; the Richard Eberhart Collection, Dartmouth College Library; Rare Books and Special Collections, Firestone Library, Princeton University; Houghton Library, Harvard University; Malcolm Cowley Papers, Newberry Library; Manuscripts Division, University of Minnesota Libraries; Manuscripts Collection, University of Washington Libraries; and the Merrill Moore Collection, Library of Congress.
Special acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to use previously unpublished material:
William Alfred; the estate of W. H. Auden, copyright © 1982 by the estate of W. H. Auden, not to be reprinted without written permission; Frank Bidart, literary executor for Robert Lowell; Lawrence E. Brinn and Louise Crane, executors for the estate of Marianne Moore; Blair Clark; Donald Davie; Kate Donahue, literary executor for John Berryman; Richard Eberhart; Alfred C. Edwards, trustee for the estate of Robert Frost; Mrs. T. S. Eliot; Robert Fitzgerald; Robert Giroux; Elizabeth Hardwick; Mary von S. Jarrell; Stanley Kunitz; Dwight Macdonald, literary executor for Delmore Schwartz; William Meredith; Anne Leslie Moore; Curtis Prout; Adrienne Rich; Russell & Volkening, Inc., agent for the estate of Jean Stafford; Helen H. Tate; Peter Taylor; John Thompson; and Liberty Winter.
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American Poetry Review: Excerpt from “Caryatid: A Column” by Adrienne Rich, published in American Poetry Review, Sept.–Oct. 1973. Copyright © 1973 by Adrienne Rich.
Atheneum Publishers: Excerpt from Language and Silence: Essays on Language, Literature and the Inbuman by George Steiner. Copyright © 1967 by George Steiner. Reprinted with the permission of Atheneum Publishers.
Commentary: Excerpt from a letter by Robert Lowell reprinted from Commentary, April 1969, by permission of Commentary and Robert Lowell’s literary executor.
Commonweal: Excerpt from a book review by Anne Fremantle, Commonweal, vol. 45. Copyright © Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc.
Doubleday & Company, Inc. and Faber & Faber, Ltd.: Excerpt from “Four for Sir John Davis,” from The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke. Copyright 1952 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Company, Inc. and Faber & Faber, Ltd.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.: From His Toy, His Dream, His Rest by John Berryman, copyright © 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 by John Berryman. From The Complete Poems by Elizabeth Bishop, copyright © 1969 by Elizabeth Bishop. From Day by Day by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1975, 1976, 1977 by Robert Lowell. From Imitations by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961 by Robert Lowell. From The Dolphin by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1973 by Robert Lowell. From For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1965, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 by Robert Lowell. From Near the Ocean by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967 by Robert Lowell. From The Old Glory by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1964, 1965, 1968 by Robert Lowell. From For Lizzie and Harriet by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1967, 1968, 1970, 1973 by Robert Lowell. From Notebook 1967–68 by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1967, 1968, 1969 by Robert Lowell. From Notebook by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 by Robert Lowell. From Life Studies by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1956, 1959 by Robert Lowell. From Land of Unlikeness by Robert Lowell, copyright 1943 by Robert Lowell; renewed 1972. From A View of My Own by Elizabeth Hardwick, copyright © 1960, 1962 by Elizabeth Hardwick. From The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford, copyright © 1946, 1973 by Jean Stafford. From The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor, copyright © 1969 by Peter Taylor. From King of the Cats: Literary Portraits by F.W. Dupee. Copyright © 1959, 1964 by F. W. Dupee.
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.: “Rebellion,” “The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket—VII,” and excerpts from “In the Cage,” “The Death of the Sheriff,” and “At a Bible House,” reprinted from Lord Weary’s Castle, by Robert Lowell, by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.; copyright 1946, 1974 by Robert Lowell. Excerpts from “Thanksgiving’s Over,” “The Mills of the Kavanaughs,” and “Her Dead Brother,” copyright 1950, 1951, 1947, 1975 by Robert Lowell; renewed 1978, 1979 by Harriet M. Lowell. Reprinted from The Mills of the Kavanaughs, by Robert Lowell, by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. Excerpt from American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy, edited by Jean Stein and George Plimpton, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. and International Creative Management.
The Hudson Review: Specified excerpts from Joseph Bennett’s “Two Americans, a Brahmin, and the Bourgeoisie.” Reprinted by permission from The Hudson Review, Vol. 12, No. 3 (Autumn 1959). Copyright © 1959 by The Hudson Review, Inc. Excerpt from “A Meaning of Robert Lowell” by Hayden Carruth. First published in The Hudson Review, Vol. XX, No. 3 (Autumn 1967). Reprinted by permission of the author.
The Kenyon Review: Excerpts from “Notes on Eleven Poets” by R. P. Blackmur; “Two Poets” by John Thompson; “Two Translations” by George Steiner and “A Note on Gerard Manley Hopkins,” by Robert Lowell. First published by The Kenyon Review 1945, 1959, 1961, and 1944.
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.: Excerpts from The Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson by Eric F. Goldman. Copyright © 1968, 1969 by Eric F. Goldman.
New American Library: Excerpt from Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer. Copyright 1968 by Norman Mailer; reprinted by arrangement with New American Library, Inc., New York, N.Y.
The New York Review of Books: Excerpt from “The Poetry of John Berryman” and “John Berryman” by Robert Lowell. Copyright © 1964, 1972 Nyrev, Inc. Reprinted with permission from The New York Review of Books.
The New York Times: From an article on the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, March 27, 1949. From “Tokyo War Secrets Stolen by Soviet Spy Ring in 1941.” From “Poet and Politician Orchestrate McCarthy Overtures to Voters” by E. W. Kenworthy. Letter of Robert Lowell to President Johnson, June 3, 1965. From “Talk with Robert Lowell” by Stanley Kunitz. From “Boston Jeremiads” by Selden Rodman. From “The Poetry of Autobiography” by Helen Vendler. Copyright © 1946, 1949, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1977 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission.
The New Yorker: Excerpts from “An Influx of Poets” by Jean Stafford.” Originally published in The New Yorker. Copyright © 1978 by Jean Stafford Liebling.
Nistri-Lischi Editori: Excerpt from “Remembering Cal” by Esther Brooks in Robert Lowell: A Tribute, edited by Rolando Anzilotti, 1979. Reprinted by permission of Nistri-Lischi Editori (Pisa) and the Institute of English and American Literature of the University of Pisa.
The Observer: Excerpt from an interview with Robert Lowell by John Gale, 1967. Reprinted by permission of The Observer Ltd.
Penguin Books Ltd.: Excerpt from “Il sabato del villaggio” (Saturday in the Village) by Giacomo Leopardi from The Penguin Book of Italian Verse, trans. George Kay, 1958 ed., p. 287. Copyright © 1958, 1965 by George Kay. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.
Poetry: Excerpt from “Half Legible Bronze,” by Stephen Yenser. Copyright © 1974 by The Modern Poetry Association.
Russell & Volkening, Inc.: Excerpt from “The Home Front” by Jean Stafford from Children Are Bored on Sunday. Copyright © 1945 by Jean Stafford. Reprinted by permission of Russell & Volkening, Inc.
Sewanee Review: Excerpts from “Current Poetry” by Robert Lowell; first published in the Sewanee Review 54, 1 (Winter 1946). Copyright 1946 by the University of the South. Excerpts from “Visiting the Tates” by Robert Lowell; first published, Sewanee Review 67, 4 (Autumn 1959). Copyright 1959 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of the editor.
Time Inc.: Excerpt from “Off Broadway” November 27, 1964. Copyright 1964 Time Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission from Tim
e.
Triquarterly: Excerpt from “Extracts from a Journal” by Richard Stern, published in Triquarterly, Winter 1981. Copyright © 1981 by Richard Stern. Permission granted by Wallace & Sheil Agency, Inc. as agents for Richard Stern.
Viking Penguin, Inc.: Excerpt from an interview with Robert Lowell by Frederick Seidel from Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Second Series, edited by George Plimpton. Copyright © 1963 by The Paris Review, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin Inc.
University of Washington Press: Excerpts from Selected Letters of Theodore Roethke, Ralph J. Mills, Jr., ed.
Previously unpublished letter by William Carlos Williams, Copyright © 1982 by William E. Williams and Paul H. Williams. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp., agent.
Charlotte Winslow, 1915.
Robert Traill Spence Lowell Sr. and Jr., about 1920.
