Lowell, Robert 1917-1977
Overview
| Works: | 1,177 works in 2,903 publications in 6 languages and 107,389 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Poetry Criticism, interpretation, etc Biography Drama Tragedies (Drama) Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc Mythological plays Records and correspondence Personal correspondence History |
| Subject Headings: | Poets, American |
| Roles: | Author, Translator, Editor, Performer, Librettist, Other, Author of screenplay, Dedicatee, Author of introduction, Narrator, Adapter, Lyricist, Scenarist, Thesis advisor, Bibliographic antecedent, Speaker |
| Classifications: | PS3523.O89, 811.52 |
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Most widely held works about
Robert Lowell
- Robert Lowell : a biography by Ian Hamilton( Book )
- Robert Lowell : life and art by Steven Gould Axelrod( Book )
- Robert Lowell by Richard J Fein( Book )
- Robert Lowell : a collection of critical essays by Thomas Francis Parkinson( Book )
- Part of nature, part of us : modern American poets by Helen Vendler( Book )
- Midcentury quartet : Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman, and the making of a postmodern aesthetic by Thomas J Travisano( )
- True friendship : Geoffrey Hill, Anthony Hecht, and Robert Lowell under the sign of Eliot and Pound by Christopher Ricks( )
- American poetry since 1945 : a critical survey by Stephen Stepanchev( Book )
- Contemporary American literature : 1945-1972 : an introduction by Ihab Hassan( Book )
- The years of our friendship : Robert Lowell and Allen Tate by William Doreski( )
- Notebook 1967-68 by Robert Lowell( Book )
- Robert Lowell by Jay Martin( Book )
- Modern American poetry; essays in criticism by Jerome Mazzaro( Book )
- The fierce embrace : a study of contemporary American poetry by Charles Molesworth( Book )
- The poetic themes of Robert Lowell by Jerome Mazzaro( Book )
- Five temperaments : Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, James Merrill, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery by David Kalstone( Book )
- Lost puritan : a life of Robert Lowell by Paul L Mariani( Book )
- A revolution in taste : studies of Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath, and Robert Lowell by Louis Simpson( Book )
- Shades of authority : the poetry of Lowell, Hill and Heaney by Stephen James( )
- Robert Lowell in love by Jeffrey Meyers( )
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Most widely held works by
Robert Lowell
Selected poems by
Robert Lowell(
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95 editions published between 1944 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,052 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
More than two hundred poems from Lowell's previously published volumes provide a comprehensive view of his work to date
95 editions published between 1944 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 3,052 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
More than two hundred poems from Lowell's previously published volumes provide a comprehensive view of his work to date
For the Union dead by
Robert Lowell(
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63 editions published between 1956 and 1985 in 4 languages and held by 2,010 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Selected poems about the problems of modern life, inspired by historical sights or impressions of existence throughout the world
63 editions published between 1956 and 1985 in 4 languages and held by 2,010 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Selected poems about the problems of modern life, inspired by historical sights or impressions of existence throughout the world
The Old Glory by
Robert Lowell(
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51 editions published between 1964 and 2000 in 4 languages and held by 1,997 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Based on stories and sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne, on Thomas Morton's New Canaan, and on Herman Melville's Benito Cereno
51 editions published between 1964 and 2000 in 4 languages and held by 1,997 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Based on stories and sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne, on Thomas Morton's New Canaan, and on Herman Melville's Benito Cereno
Life studies by
Robert Lowell(
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84 editions published between 1956 and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,904 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
84 editions published between 1956 and 2001 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,904 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Near the ocean; [poems] by
Robert Lowell(
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46 editions published between 1963 and 1985 in English and held by 1,891 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
46 editions published between 1963 and 1985 in English and held by 1,891 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Day by day by
Robert Lowell(
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39 editions published between 1975 and 2001 in English and Italian and held by 1,878 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of sixty-three of Lowell's poems, with an appendix of three translations
39 editions published between 1975 and 2001 in English and Italian and held by 1,878 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A collection of sixty-three of Lowell's poems, with an appendix of three translations
Collected prose by
Robert Lowell(
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24 editions published between 1987 and 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,556 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This vast collection of Robert Lowell's uniformly vigorous and well-written essays, which first appeared in 1987, was edited and introduced by Robert Giroux, his longtime editor and friend. Ranging chronologically from a student paper on the "Iliad that Lowell composed in 1935 to the unfinished essay, "New England and Further," on which he was working when he died in 1977, "Collected Prose is a telling and fascinating compendium of the ideas, arguments, and opinions of one of modernity's most important poets. With many critical writings and book reviews concerning all manner of poets old and new (from Vergil and Ovid to Frost and Stevens, from Hopkins and "Epics" to Bishop and Plath) as well as recently discovered autobiograpical writings, two extended interviews, and learned yet approachable musings on everything from the Gettyburg Address to the art and craft of translation, this prose ominbus is must-reading for all students and scholars of twentieth-century American literature
24 editions published between 1987 and 1990 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,556 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This vast collection of Robert Lowell's uniformly vigorous and well-written essays, which first appeared in 1987, was edited and introduced by Robert Giroux, his longtime editor and friend. Ranging chronologically from a student paper on the "Iliad that Lowell composed in 1935 to the unfinished essay, "New England and Further," on which he was working when he died in 1977, "Collected Prose is a telling and fascinating compendium of the ideas, arguments, and opinions of one of modernity's most important poets. With many critical writings and book reviews concerning all manner of poets old and new (from Vergil and Ovid to Frost and Stevens, from Hopkins and "Epics" to Bishop and Plath) as well as recently discovered autobiograpical writings, two extended interviews, and learned yet approachable musings on everything from the Gettyburg Address to the art and craft of translation, this prose ominbus is must-reading for all students and scholars of twentieth-century American literature
Collected poems by
Robert Lowell(
Book
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21 editions published between 1997 and 2017 in English and held by 1,544 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled the definitive edition of Lowell's work, from his first, impossible-to-find collection, Land of Unlikeness, to the early triumph of Lord Weary's Castle, winner of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize; to the brilliant willfulness of his versions of poems by Sappho, Baudelaire, Rilke, Montale, and other masters in Imitations; to the late spontaneity of The Dolphin, winner of another Pulitzer Prize; to his last, most searching book, Day by Day. This volume also includes poems and translations never previously collected, and a selection of drafts that demonstrate the poet's constant drive to reimagine his work. Frank Bidart has contributed an introduction and an afterword that discuss Lowell's idiosyncratic approach to poem-making. The book includes voluminous notes and a glossary of important names."--Jacket
21 editions published between 1997 and 2017 in English and held by 1,544 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled the definitive edition of Lowell's work, from his first, impossible-to-find collection, Land of Unlikeness, to the early triumph of Lord Weary's Castle, winner of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize; to the brilliant willfulness of his versions of poems by Sappho, Baudelaire, Rilke, Montale, and other masters in Imitations; to the late spontaneity of The Dolphin, winner of another Pulitzer Prize; to his last, most searching book, Day by Day. This volume also includes poems and translations never previously collected, and a selection of drafts that demonstrate the poet's constant drive to reimagine his work. Frank Bidart has contributed an introduction and an afterword that discuss Lowell's idiosyncratic approach to poem-making. The book includes voluminous notes and a glossary of important names."--Jacket
Imitations by
Robert Lowell(
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59 editions published between 1958 and 1995 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,444 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Imitations is, so far as I know, the only book of its kind in literature. . . Lowell, who has used material from a variety of other writers, from Homer to Pasternak, has produced a volume of verse. . . which is really [his own] original sequence. --Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker
59 editions published between 1958 and 1995 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,444 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Imitations is, so far as I know, the only book of its kind in literature. . . Lowell, who has used material from a variety of other writers, from Homer to Pasternak, has produced a volume of verse. . . which is really [his own] original sequence. --Edmund Wilson, The New Yorker
The dolphin by
Robert Lowell(
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25 editions published between 1973 and 2019 in English and held by 1,297 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Provides a poetic commentary on the illusions and realities of life and love
25 editions published between 1973 and 2019 in English and held by 1,297 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Provides a poetic commentary on the illusions and realities of life and love
Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965 by
Robert Lowell(
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21 editions published between 1965 and 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,287 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Critical essays about Jarrell's poetry, his personal memoirs, and poems about him by admirers
21 editions published between 1965 and 1994 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,287 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Critical essays about Jarrell's poetry, his personal memoirs, and poems about him by admirers
History by
Robert Lowell(
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27 editions published between 1972 and 1975 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,162 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"About 80 of the poems in History are new," writes Mr. Lowell, "the rest are taken from my last published poem, Notebook begun six years ago. All the poems have been changed, some heavily. I have plotted. My old title, Notebook, was more accurate than I wished, i.e. my composition was jumbled. I hope this jumble or jungle is cleared--that I have cut the waste marble from the figure."--Farrar, Straus and Giroux
27 editions published between 1972 and 1975 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,162 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"About 80 of the poems in History are new," writes Mr. Lowell, "the rest are taken from my last published poem, Notebook begun six years ago. All the poems have been changed, some heavily. I have plotted. My old title, Notebook, was more accurate than I wished, i.e. my composition was jumbled. I hope this jumble or jungle is cleared--that I have cut the waste marble from the figure."--Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Notebook by
Robert Lowell(
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51 editions published between 1967 and 1995 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,112 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Throughout {these poems} burns a passionate intelligence, a conscience, which the reader feels is trustworthy. --William Meredith, The New York Times Book Review. {Lowell} appears in Notebook as a very subtle man, unashamedly intelligent, well read and alert, whose poems are at once delicate and piercing. --A. Alvarez, The Observer
51 editions published between 1967 and 1995 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,112 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Throughout {these poems} burns a passionate intelligence, a conscience, which the reader feels is trustworthy. --William Meredith, The New York Times Book Review. {Lowell} appears in Notebook as a very subtle man, unashamedly intelligent, well read and alert, whose poems are at once delicate and piercing. --A. Alvarez, The Observer
Prometheus bound by
Robert Lowell(
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13 editions published between 1964 and 1970 in English and held by 1,080 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Yale School of Drama presents Robert Lowell's adaptation of Aeschylus' "Prometheus Bound," directed by Jonathan Miller, with Kenneth Haigh, Irene Worth and Laurinda Barrett, Clayton Corbin, David Hurst, Ron Leibman, Ev Lunning, Joan Pape, Brett Prentiss, Joan Weisberg, sets and costumes by Michael Annals, lighting by Phil Dixson
13 editions published between 1964 and 1970 in English and held by 1,080 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Yale School of Drama presents Robert Lowell's adaptation of Aeschylus' "Prometheus Bound," directed by Jonathan Miller, with Kenneth Haigh, Irene Worth and Laurinda Barrett, Clayton Corbin, David Hurst, Ron Leibman, Ev Lunning, Joan Pape, Brett Prentiss, Joan Weisberg, sets and costumes by Michael Annals, lighting by Phil Dixson
For Lizzie and Harriet by
Robert Lowell(
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25 editions published between 1967 and 1975 in English and held by 1,015 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In another order, in other versions," Mr. Lowell writes, "all the poems in this book appeared in my last published poem, Notebook."--Farrar, Straus and Giroux
25 editions published between 1967 and 1975 in English and held by 1,015 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In another order, in other versions," Mr. Lowell writes, "all the poems in this book appeared in my last published poem, Notebook."--Farrar, Straus and Giroux
The mills of the Kavanaughs. [Poems by
Robert Lowell(
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14 editions published between 1951 and 1965 in English and held by 988 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
14 editions published between 1951 and 1965 in English and held by 988 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Lord Weary's castle by
Robert Lowell(
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18 editions published between 1944 and 1983 in English and Undetermined and held by 986 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
18 editions published between 1944 and 1983 in English and Undetermined and held by 986 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Words in air : the complete correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell by
Elizabeth Bishop(
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17 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in English and held by 910 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The candid, affectionate, complex, and loving friendship of two American poets is recorded in letters written over three decades, collected here for the first time in their entirely."--[book cover]
17 editions published between 2008 and 2010 in English and held by 910 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The candid, affectionate, complex, and loving friendship of two American poets is recorded in letters written over three decades, collected here for the first time in their entirely."--[book cover]
Life studies, and For the Union dead by
Robert Lowell(
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54 editions published between 1956 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 872 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Robert Lowell, with Elizabeth Bishop, stands apart as the greatest American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century--and Life Studies and For the Union Dead stand as among his most important volumes. In Life Studies, which was first published in 1959, Lowell moved away from the formality of his earlier poems and started writing in a more confessional vein. The title poem of For the Union Dead concerns the death of the Civil War hero (and Lowell ancestor) Robert Gould Shaw, but it also largely centers on the contrast between Boston's idealistic past and its debased present at the time of its writing, in the early 1960's. Throughout, Lowell addresses contemporaneous subjects in a voice and style that themselves push beyond the accepted forms and constraints of the time
54 editions published between 1956 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 872 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Robert Lowell, with Elizabeth Bishop, stands apart as the greatest American poet of the latter half of the twentieth century--and Life Studies and For the Union Dead stand as among his most important volumes. In Life Studies, which was first published in 1959, Lowell moved away from the formality of his earlier poems and started writing in a more confessional vein. The title poem of For the Union Dead concerns the death of the Civil War hero (and Lowell ancestor) Robert Gould Shaw, but it also largely centers on the contrast between Boston's idealistic past and its debased present at the time of its writing, in the early 1960's. Throughout, Lowell addresses contemporaneous subjects in a voice and style that themselves push beyond the accepted forms and constraints of the time
The Oresteia of Aeschylus by
Aeschylus(
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10 editions published between 1978 and 1979 in English and held by 864 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Oresteia -- Agamemnon, Choephori, and The Eumenides -- depicts the downfall of the house of Atreus: after King Agamemnon is murdered by Clytemnestra, their son, Orestes, is commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime by killing his mother, and he does so, bringing on himself the wrath of the Furies and the judgment of Athens. Together, the three plays are one of the major achievements of Greek antiquity. - Publisher
10 editions published between 1978 and 1979 in English and held by 864 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Oresteia -- Agamemnon, Choephori, and The Eumenides -- depicts the downfall of the house of Atreus: after King Agamemnon is murdered by Clytemnestra, their son, Orestes, is commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime by killing his mother, and he does so, bringing on himself the wrath of the Furies and the judgment of Athens. Together, the three plays are one of the major achievements of Greek antiquity. - Publisher
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Related Identities
- Jarrell, Randall 1914-1965 Performer Author
- Roethke, Theodore 1908-1963
- Berryman, John 1914-1972 Other Performer
- Bishop, Elizabeth 1911-1979 Author
- Ashbery, John 1927-2017 Other Performer
- Plath, Sylvia Performer Author
- Poets Laureate Collection (Library of Congress)
- Pound, Ezra 1885-1972
- Stevens, Wallace 1879-1955 Performer Author
- Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley) 1927- Author
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Albee, Edward, American literature American poetry Ammons, A. R., Ashbery, John, Auden, W. H.--(Wystan Hugh), Baraka, Amiri, Barth, John Berryman, John, Bishop, Elizabeth, Bishop, Leonard, Bly, Robert Capote, Truman, Creeley, Robert, Cummings, E. E.--(Edward Estlin), Dickey, James Duncan, Robert, Eliot, T. S.--(Thomas Stearns), English poetry Ginsberg, Allen, Jarrell, Randall, Levertov, Denise, Lowell, Robert, Mailer, Norman Malamud, Bernard Merwin, W. S.--(William Stanley), Miller, Arthur, Moore, Marianne, Morris, William, Nemerov, Howard O'Hara, Frank Plath, Sylvia Poetry Poets, American Pound, Ezra, Purdy, James Rich, Adrienne, Roethke, Theodore, Salinger, J. D.--(Jerome David), Shapiro, Karl, Stafford, William, Stevens, Wallace, Styron, William, United States Updike, John Vonnegut, Kurt Warren, Robert Penn, Wilbur, Richard, Williams, Tennessee, Wright, James,
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