The letters of Robert Lowell /
edited by Saskia Hamilton.
- First edition.
- xxxi, 852 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 811-816) and index.
Introduction : "I was naked without my line-ends." 1. 1936-1940: Education at Harvard and Kenyon colleges; marriage to Jean Stafford -- 2. 1940-1946: Writing of Land of unlikeness and Lord Weary's castle; imprisonment for refusing military induction -- 3. 1946-1949: Separation from Stafford; writing of The mills of the Kavanaughs -- 4. 1949-1954: Preparation of Poems 1938-1949; marriage to Elizabeth Hardwick -- 5. 1954-1959: Writing of Life studies and Imitations; birth of Harriet Lowell -- 6. 1959-1966: Writing of Imitations, The old glory, Phaedra, For the Union dead, and Near the ocean -- 7. 1967-1970: Writing of Notebook 1967-68 -- 8. 1970-1977: Writing of The dolphin and Day by day; separation from Hardwick; birth of Sheridan Lowell; marriage to Caroline Blackwood.