Day by Day (1977)
The Oresteia of Aeschylus (translation) (1978)
Collected Prose (1987)
Collected Poems (2003)
The Letters of Robert Lowell (2007)
Selected Poems (2007)
About the Author
Robert Lowell was born in Boston in 1917. He attended Harvard University and Kenyon College, where he received his B.A. in 1940. He was the dominant poetic voice of his era. Lowell died in New York City in 1977. You can sign up for email updates here.
About the Editor
Katie Peterson is the author of three collections of poetry, This One Tree, Permission, and The Accounts. She lives in California and teaches at the University of California at Davis. You can sign up for email updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Introduction
FROM Lord Weary’s Castle (1946)
New Year’s Day
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
Buttercups
Between the Porch and the Altar
In the Cage
Mr. Edwards and the Spider
Where the Rainbow Ends
FROM The Mills of the Kavanaughs (1951)
from Her Dead Brother
FROM Life Studies (1959)
Beyond the Alps
A Mad Negro Soldier Confined at Munich
91 Revere Street
To Delmore Schwartz
Words for Hart Crane
Terminal Days at Beverly Farms
Father’s Bedroom
For Sale
Sailing Home From Rapallo
Waking in the Blue
Home After Three Months Away
Memories of West Street and Lepke
Man and Wife
“To Speak of the Woe That Is in Marriage”
Skunk Hour
FROM Imitations (1961)
The Infinite
The Poet at Seven
Pigeons
FROM For the Union Dead (1964)
Water
Fall 1961
The Lesson
Those Before Us
Eye and Tooth
The Public Garden
Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts
Caligula
July in Washington
Soft Wood
For the Union Dead
FROM Near the Ocean (1967)
Near the Ocean: 1. Waking Early Sunday Morning
from Brunetto Latini
FROM Notebook 1967–68 (1969)
Long Summer
Five Dreams
Close the Book
FROM Notebook (1970)
Pastime
FROM History (1973)
History
Napoleon
Beethoven
Coleridge
Abraham Lincoln
Bobby Delano
Will Not Come Back
Sylvia Plath
Randall Jarrell
Our Dead Poets
T. S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
William Carlos Williams
Robert Frost
Blizzard in Cambridge
For Robert Kennedy 1925–68
Dream, the Republican Convention
After the Democratic Convention
The Nihilist as Hero
For Elizabeth Bishop 4
End of a Year
FROM For Lizzie and Harriet (1973)
Summer
from New York
from Circles
from Late Summer
Obit
FROM The Dolphin (1973)
Fishnet
from Redcliffe Square
from Hospital I
Records
Mermaid
from Exorcism
Plotted
The Couple
Mermaid Emerging
from Another Summer
On the End of the Phone
Dolphin
FROM Day by Day (1977)
Last Walk?
Square of Black
The Day
Marriage
Logan Airport, Boston
Grass Fires
Suburban Surf
Shaving
Caroline in Sickness
Seesaw
Ten Minutes
Notice
Shifting Colors
Unwanted
Thanks-Offering for Recovery
Epilogue
FROM Last Poems (1977)
Summer Tides
Index of Titles and First Lines
Also by Robert Lowell
About the Author and Editor
Copyright
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Introduction copyright © 2017 by Katie Peterson
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First edition, 2017
Library of Congress Control Number: 2016956347
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