Robert Lowell (1917–77) 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).
New Selected Poems
by Robert Lowell, Katie Peterson (Editor) Robert Lowell
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- ISBN-13: 9780374251338
- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publication date: 02/28/2017
- Edition description: New Edition
- Pages: 272
- Product dimensions: 5.48(w) x 8.24(h) x 0.82(d)
Table of Contents
Introduction ix
From Lord Weary's Castle (1942)
New Year's Day 3
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket 4
Buttercups 9
Between the Porch and the Altar 10
In the Cage 14
Mr. Edwards and the Spider 15
Where the Rainbow Ends 17
From The Mills of the Kavanaughs (1951)
from Her Dead Brother 21
From Life Studies (1959)
Beyond the Alps 25
A Mad Negro Soldier Confined at Munich 27
91 Revere Street 28
To Delmore Schwartz 65
Words for Hart Crane 67
Terminal Days at Beverly Farms 68
Father's Bedroom 70
For Sale 71
Sailing Home from Rapallo 72
Waking in the Blue 74
Home After Three Months Away 76
Memories of West Street and Lepke 78
Man and Wife 80
"To Speak of the Woe That Is in Marriage" 81
Skunk Hour 82
From Imitations (1961)
The Infinite 87
The Poet at Seven 88
Pigeons 92
From For the Union Dead (1964)
Water 95
Fall 1961 97
The Lesson 99
Those Before Us 100
Eye and Tooth 101
The Public Garden 103
Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts 104
Caligula 108
July in Washington 110
Soft Wood 111
For the Union Dead 113
From Near the Ocean (1967)
Near the Ocean: I. Waking Early Sunday Morning 119
from Brunetto Latini 123
From Notebook 1967-68 (1969)
Long Summer 127
Five Dreams 134
Close the Book 137
From Notebook (1970)
Pastime 141
From History (1973)
History 145
Napoleon 146
Beethoven 147
Coleridge 148
Abraham Lincoln 149
Bobby Delano 150
Will Not Come Back 151
Sylvia Plath 152
Randall Jarrell 153
Our Dead Poets 154
T. S. Eliot 155
Ezra Pound 156
William Carlos Williams 157
Robert Frost 158
Blizzard in Cambridge 159
For Robert Kennedy 1925-68 160
Dream, the Republican Convention 161
After the Democratic Convention 162
The Nihilist as Hero 163
For Elizabeth Bishop 4 164
End of a Year 165
From For Lizzie and Harriet (1973)
Summer 169
from New York 172
from Circles 174
from Late Summer 177
Obit 180
From The Dolphin (1973)
Fishnet 183
from Redcliffe Square 184
from Hospital I 186
Records 187
Mermaid 188
from Exorcism 191
Plotted 192
The Couple 193
Mermaid Emerging 194
from Another Summer 195
On the End of the Phone 196
Dolphin 197
From Day by Day (1977)
Last Walk? 201
Square of Black 203
The Day 205
Marriage 206
Logan Airport, Boston 209
Grass Fires 211
Suburban Surf 213
Shaving 215
Caroline in Sickness 216
Seesaw 217
Ten Minutes 218
Notice 220
Shifting Colors 221
Unwanted 223
Thanks-Offering for Recovery 227
Epilogue 229
From Last Poems (1977)
Summer Tides 233
Index of Titles and First Lines 235
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In this condensed edition of Selected Poems, Robert Lowell’s poems are brought together from all of his books of verse. Chosen and introduced by Katie Peterson on the occasion of Robert Lowell’s one hundredth birthday, Brief Selected Poems offers a perfectly chosen and illuminating representation of one of the great careers in twentieth-century poetry.
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