by Ian Hamilton
Robert Lowell, about age five.
Robert Lowell, about age eighteen.
Frank Parker and Robert Lowell, counselors at Brentwood Camp, 1934.
Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford and Peter Taylor, in New Orleans, 1940.
Jean Stafford, in Boulder, 1936.
Frank Parker and his cousin Ann Dick, in Boston, 1941.
Allen Tate, Marcella Comès, Robert Lowell, in Monteagle, Tenn., 1943.
Caroline Gordon Tate, Anne Goodwin Winslow, Andrew Lytle, Mrs. Andrew Lytle, Nancy Tate, Allen Tate, Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford, in Monteagle, Tenn., 1943.
Robert Lowell, Jean Stafford, Robert Giroux, in Damariscotta, Me., 1945.
Jean Stafford, 1947.
Robert Lowell, in Greensboro, N.C., 1946.
Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor, in Greensboro, N.C., 1948.
Sara Layton, John Thompson, Jr., Helen Keeler Thompson, Jeanne Kelly, Robert Lowell, Garland Draper, George Rosen, in New York City, June 19, 1949.
Kenyon School of Letters: (standing) Philip Rice, Arthur Mizener, Robert Lowell, Kenneth Burke, Delmore Schwartz, Charles Coffin; (sitting) William Empson, John Crowe Ransom, L. C. Knights, 1950.
Lowell tips a foul ball, Kenyon College, 1950.
Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick, in Red Hook, NY, 1949.
Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick on the boat to Europe, 1950.
Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick, in Florence, 1950.
Elizabeth Hardwick, Florence, 1950.
Robert Lowell, 1953.
Elizabeth Hardwick, 1955.
Harriet Winslow’s house in Castine, Me.
Robert Lowell and daughter, Harriet, 1957.
Robert Lowell teaching in Boston, 1964.
Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick, in Castine, Me., 1960.
Robert Lowell with his daughter, Harriet, 1961.
Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop, in Rio de Janeiro, 1962.
Robert Lowell, 1964.
Roscoe Lee Brown and Robert Lowell during a rehearsal of The Old Glory.
Robert Lowell and Jackie Kennedy at Sidney Lanier’s theater party at The American Place for Hogan’s Goat, November 30, 1965.
Robert Lowell at Paris Review party at the Village Gate, May 15, 1967.
Robert Lowell on the March on the Pentagon, October 21, 1967.
John Crowe Ransom’s eightieth birthday. (Clockwise from top): Robert Lowell, Susan Thompson, John Crowe Ransom, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Robie Macauley, Elizabeth Hardwick, Jack Thompson, Peter Taylor, David McDowell, G. Lanning, in Gambier, Ohio, 1968.
Elizabeth Hardwick, Castine, Me., 1969.
Robert Lowell, Harriet Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, 1969.
Robert Lowell, in Venice, 1970.
Robert Lowell and Nicholas Nabokov, in Venice, 1970.
Robert Lowell and Harriet Lowell, in Venice, 1970.
Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick leaving Venice, saying good-bye to Esther Brooks, 1970.
Caroline Blackwood, Peter Taylor, Robert Lowell, 1971.
Caroline Blackwood.
Robert Lowell at Milgate, 1973.
Robert Lowell at Milgate, 1973.
Robert Lowell at the grave of his cousin Harriet Winslow, in Washington, D.C., 1974.
Robert Lowell, 1977.
Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, Dr. Carl Cori, in Castine, Me., August 1977.
Robert Lowell, Castine, Me., August 25, 1977.
About the Author
Ian Hamilton was born in 1938, in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, and educated at Darlington Grammar School and Keble College, Oxford. In 1962, he founded the influential poetry magazine, the Review, and he was later editor of the New Review. He also wrote biographies and journalism, mainly about literature and football. He died in 2001.
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