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by Elizabeth Hardwick


  Selected Poems (Lowell)

  Sentimental Education (Flaubert)

  Servadio, Gaia (b. 1938), writer

  Seton, Ernest Thompson (1860–1946), naturalist and writer

  Seyersted, Per (1921–2005), literary scholar

  Shakespeare, William (1564–1616); Hamlet; King Lear; Macbeth; Othello

  Shapiro, David (b. 1947), poet

  Sharpley, Anne (1928–1989), journalist

  Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1797–1851)

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792–1822)

  Shirer, William L. (1904–1993), journalist

  Silvers, Robert B. (1929–2017), editor; Blackwood and; RL’s telegram to

  Simon, John (b. 1925), theater and film critic

  Singer, Isaac Bashevis (1904–1991), writer

  “Sir Patrick Spens” (ballad)

  Sleepless Nights (Hardwick); McCarthy on; revisions of; RL and; “Writing a Novel” and

  Sloman, Albert (1922–2012), university vice chancellor

  Smith College

  Snodgrass, W. D. (1926–2009), poet

  “Soft Wood” (Lowell)

  Sons and Lovers (Lawrence)

  Sontag, Susan (1933–2004), writer; on EH; illness of

  Soper, Edward A.

  Southern Review

  Spark, Muriel (1918–2006), novelist

  Sparrow, John (1906–1992), bibliophile and college warden

  Spence, Harriet Traill: see Lowell, Harriet Traill Spence

  Spence, Keith (d. 1826)

  Spender, Elizabeth (b. 1950), actor

  Spender, Maro: see Gorky, Maro

  Spender, Matthew (b. 1945), sculptor

  Spender, Natasha (1919–2010), pianist

  Spender, Stephen (1909–1995), poet

  Spivack, Kathleen (b. 1938), poet

  Spock, Benjamin (1903–1998), pediatrician and activist

  Stafford, Jean (1915–1979), novelist

  Stark, John (1728–1822)

  Starkie, Enid (1897–1970), literary scholar

  Stein, Jean (1934–2017), writer and editor

  Stepdaughter, The (Blackwood)

  Stephen, Leslie (1832–1904)

  Stevens, Wallace (1879–1955), poet

  Stillman, Theodora Jay: see Rahv, Theodora Jay

  Stock, Noel (b. 1929), biographer

  Stone, Grace (1891–1991), novelist

  Stone, Irving (1903–1989), writer

  Stony Brook University

  Storey, Moorfield (1845–1929), lawyer and activist

  Strachey, Lytton (1880–1932), writer and critic

  Strand, Mark (1934–2014), poet

  Straus, Roger

  Stravinsky, Igor (1882–1971), composer

  Stravinsky, Vera de Bosset (1888–1982), dancer

  Styron, Rose (b. 1928), writer and activist

  Sumner, Charles (1811–1874)

  Sweeney, Francis W., SJ (1916–2002), priest and literary scholar

  Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837–1909)

  Tanzi, Drusilla (1885–1963), writer

  Tate, Allen (1899–1979), poet; RL and Festschrift project for

  Tate, Benjamin (son of Allen)

  Tate, Benjamin E. (brother of Allen)

  Tate, Caroline: see Gordon, Caroline

  Tate, Helen

  Tate, John Allen (son of Allen)

  Tate, Michael Paul (son of Allen)

  Taylor, Eleanor (1920–2011), poet

  Taylor, Peter (1917–1994), writer; in car accident; heart attack of

  Taylor, Peter Ross (b. 1955), poet

  Tennyson, Alfred (1809–1892)

  Tennyson, Leonard (1919–2003), journalist and civil servant

  “Terminal Days in Beverly Farms” (Lowell)

  Testing-Tree, The (Kunitz)

  Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811–1863): Vanity Fair

  Thomas, Dylan (1914–1953), poet

  Thomas, Harris “Tommy” (1904–1985), French teacher

  Thomas, Julian

  Thomas, Mary; death of

  Thompson, John “Jack” (1918–2002), poet and literary scholar

  Thompson, Peter

  Thompson, Susan Otis (1931–2008), literary scholar and bibliographer

  Thorne, Angela (b. 1939), actor

  Threepenny Opera (Brecht)

  Three Poems (Ashbery)

  “Ties Women Cannot Shake and Have, The” (Hardwick)

  Tillich, Hannah (1893–1988), painter

  Tillich, Paul (1886–1965), theologian

  Time

  Time Magazine

  Times (London)

  Times Literary Supplement

  “To an Old Lady” (Empson)

  Toledano, Ralph de (1916–2007), writer

  Toll, John S. (1923–2011), university president

  Tolstoy, Leo (1828–1910): War and Peace

  Tomalin, Claire (b. 1933), biographer

  Tonks, Rosemary (1928–2014), poet

  Toomey, Philippa

  To See, To Take (Van Duyn)

  To the Lighthouse (Woolf)

  Traill, Robert (d. 1785)

  Tree, Marietta

  Trial, The (Kafka)

  Troil, Minna (character in Walter Scott’s The Pirate)

  Tree, Marietta (1917–1991)

  Turner, Charles “Chuck” (1921–2003), composer and violinist

  Tweedie, Jill (1936–1993), writer

  “12 O’Clock News” (Bishop)

  Ungaretti, Giuseppe (1888–1970), poet

  United Nations School

  University of Connecticut at Storrs

  University of North Carolina at Greensboro

  University of Texas at Austin, Harry Ransom Center (HRC) at

  Updike, John (1932–2009), writer

  “Useful Critic, A” (Hardwick)

  Valentine, Jean (b. 1934), poet

  Valéry, Paul (1871–1945), poet

  vanden Heuvel, Jean: see Stein, Jean

  Van Duyn, Mona (1921–2004), poet

  Vanity Fair (Thackeray)

  Veague, Arnold L., (1915–2003), lawyer

  Vidal, Gore (1925–2012), writer

  Vigeland, Gustav (1869–1943), sculptor

  Vile Bodies (Waugh)

  Village Voice, The

  Villette (Brontë)

  Virgil (70–19 BCE); The Aeneid

  Virginia Woolf: A Biography (Bell)

  Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Blake)

  Vogue; “Accepting the Dare: Maine” (Hardwick); “The Ties Women Cannot Shake and Have” (Hardwick)

  Wager, Lisa

  Wain, John (1925–1994), poet

  Walcott, Derek (1930–2017), poet

  Walcott, Peter, painter

  Walker, Gillian

  Wallace, George (1919–1998)

  War and Peace (Tolstoy)

  Ward, Aileen (1919–2016), literary scholar

  Wardwell, Elmer (1917–1996)

  Wardwell, Edith (1917–2005)

  Warhol, Andy (1928–1987)

  Waugh, Evelyn (1903–1966), novelist; Vile Bodies

  “Wave, The” (Parker)

  Webster, John (c. 1580–c.1632)

  Weidenfeld, George (1919–2016), publisher

  Weil, Simone; EH’s essay on

  Welsh, Jane: see Carlyle, Jane Welsh

  West, Alison

  West, Daniel

  West, James (1915–1999), diplomat; RL and Blackwood visited by

  West, Jonathan

  Westminster Abbey

  Wevill, Assia Gutmann (1927–1969), translator

  Wevill, Alexandra “Shura” (1965–1969)

  Wharton, Edith (1862–1937)

  Wheelwright, John (1897–1940), poet

  When We Dead Awaken (Ibsen)

  White, Alida Mary

  White, Peter

  Whitman, Walt (1819–1892)

  Whittemore, Reed (1919–2012), poet

  Willams, Clifford (1926–2005), theater director

  Williams, William C
arlos (1883–1963), poet

  Will to Change, The: Poems 1968–70 (Rich)

  Wilson, Angus (1913–1991), novelist

  Wilson, Edmund (1895–1972), writer and critic

  Wilson, Robert A. (b. 1922), bookseller and bibliographer

  Winslow, Arthur (1860–1938)

  Winslow, Harriet Patterson (1882–1964); Castine properties and; death of

  Winslow, Jacqueline

  Winslow, Mary Devereux (1862–1944)

  Winslow, Natalie E. (1900–1974)

  Wise Blood (O’Connor)

  Witness Tree, A (Frost)

  Wittgenstein, Ludwig (1889–1951), philosopher

  Wollheim, Richard (1923–2003), philosopher

  Woolf, Virginia (1882–1941), writer; Bell’s biography of; EH’s article on; To the Lighthouse

  Wordsworth, Dorothy (1771–1855)

  Wordsworth, William (1770–1850)

  “Working Girls: The Brontës” (Hardwick)

  Worth, Irene (1916–2002), actor

  Wright, James (1927–1980), poet

  “Writing a Novel” (Hardwick)

  Writing on the Wall, The (McCarthy)

  Writings to an Unfinished Accompaniment (Merwin)

  Wrong, Dennis H. (1923–2018), sociologist

  Wyatt, Thomas (1503–1542)

  Yaddo

  Yale University

  Yankee Doodle (Farb)

  Yeats, William Butler (1865–1939), poet

  Young, David

  Young, Dudley, literary scholar

  Young, Gavin (1928–2001), journalist

  Zhou Enlai (1898–1976)

  Zinsser, Barbara

  BY ELIZABETH HARDWICK

  The Ghostly Lover (1945)

  The Simple Truth (1955)

  The Selected Letters of William James (editor) (1961)

  A View of My Own (1962)

  Seduction and Betrayal (1974)

  Sleepless Nights (1979)

  Bartleby in Manhattan (1983)

  Sight-Readings (1998)

  The New York Stories of Elizabeth Hardwick (2010)

  The Collected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick (2017)

  BY ROBERT LOWELL

  Land of Unlikeness (1944)

  Lord Weary’s Castle (1946)

  The Mills of the Kavanaughs (1951)

  Life Studies (1959)

  Phaedra (translation) (1961)

  Imitations (1961)

  For the Union Dead (1964)

  The Old Glory (plays) (1965)

  Near the Ocean (1967)

  Prometheus Bound (translation) (1967)

  The Voyage and Other Versions of Poems by Baudelaire (1968)

  Notebook 1967–68 (1969; Notebook, revised and expanded edition, 1970)

  History (1973)

  For Lizzie and Harriet (1973)

  The Dolphin (1973)

  Selected Poems (1976; revised edition, 1977)

  Day by Day (1977)

  The Oresteia of Aeschylus (translation) (1978)

  Collected Prose (1987)

  Collected Poems (2003)

  The Letters of Robert Lowell (2005)

  Selected Poems: Expanded Edition (2007)

  Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (2008)

  New Selected Poems (2017)

  The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972–1973 (2019)

  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHORS

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1915-2007) was a literary critic, a novelist, and one of the founders of The New York Review of Books. She is the author of Sleepless Nights and two other novels, a biography of Herman Melville, and four collections of essays, including Seduction and Betrayal, a study of women in literature. You can sign up for email updates here.

  Robert Lowell (1917-1977) was the renowned and controversial author of many books of poetry, including Day by Day (FSG, 1977), For the Union Dead (FSG, 1964), and Life Studies (FSG, 1959). You can sign up for email updates here.

  A NOTE ABOUT THE EDITOR

  Saskia Hamilton is the author of three books of poetry, including Corridor. She is the editor of The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972–1973 and The Letters of Robert Lowell, and coeditor of Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell. She teaches at Barnard College. You can sign up for email updates here.

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  CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Notice

  Introduction

  Location of Manuscripts

  A Note on the Text and Annotation

  Table of Dates, 1970–1977

  THE DOLPHIN LETTERS

  Part I: 1970

  Part II: 1971–1972

  Part III: 1973

  Part IV: 1974–1979

  “Writing a Novel” by Elizabeth Hardwick

  “Cal working, etc.” by Elizabeth Hardwick

  Notes

  Acknowledgments

  Index

  Also by Elizabeth Hardwick

  A Note About the Authors and Editor

  Copyright

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  Writings of Robert Lowell copyright © 2019 by Harriet Lowell and Sheridan Lowell

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  First edition, 2019

  Grateful acknowledgment is made to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin for permission to reprint scans of the letters found throughout.

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