The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979
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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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