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Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell (1917-77) was the renowned and controversial author of many books of poetry, including Day by Day, The Dolphin, and History. FSG also published his Collected Prose in 1987.

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Notebook 1967-68
Poems

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A cycle of unrhymed sonnets dealing with public and private crises, marriage, middle age, and fatherhood, Notebook 1967–68 is considered by many readers to be...
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Words in Air
The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell

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Robert Lowell once remarked in a letter to Elizabeth Bishop that “you ha[ve] always been my favorite poet and favorite friend.” The feeling was mutual. Bishop...
  
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Life Studies and For the Union Dead

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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...
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Collected Poems

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Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled the definitive edition of Robert Lowell’s work, from his first, impossible-to-find collection, Land of...
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The Letters of Robert Lowell

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One of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, Robert Lowell was also a prolific letter writer who corresponded with many of the remarkable...
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Selected Poems: Expanded Edition
Including selections from Day by Day

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Selected Poems includes over 200 works culled from Robert Lowell’s books of verse—Lord Weary’s Castle, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, Life Studies, For the Union...
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The Old Glory
Endecott and the Red Cross; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; and Benito Cereno

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Winner of Five Obies, now back in print after fifteen years, a stage adaptation of classic stories by Hawthorne and Melville In the three plays in The Old...
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Imitations

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Not quite translations--yet something much more, much richer, than mere tributes to their original versions--the poems in Imitations reflect Lowell's...

Audio

Henri Cole Reads 'To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage'

Listen to Henri Cole read Robert Lowell's poem 'To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage.'

Duration: 02:46
Frank Bidart Reads 'Memories of West Street and Lepke'

Listen to the 1996 recording of Frank Bidart reading Robert Lowell's 'Memories of West Street and Lepke,' from the book Life Studies.

Duration: 03:25
C.K. Williams Reads 'For the Union Dead'

Listen to C.K. Williams read Robert Lowell's poem 'For the Union Dead.'

Duration: 04:02
Robert Lowell
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Bestseller

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Selected Poems: Expanded Edition
Including selections from Day by Day

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Selected Poems includes over 200 works culled from Robert Lowell’s books of verse—Lord Weary’s Castle, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, Life Studies, For the Union...

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