Title: Collected poems/
Authors: Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977; Bidart, Frank, 1939-; Gewanter, David.; Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library).
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
Year: 2003
Subjects: American poetry
Abstract: "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.
Contents: Introduction: "You didn't write, you rewrote" -- Note on the text -- Lord Weary's Castle (1946) -- The Mills of the Kavanaughs (1951) -- Life Studies (1959) -- Imitations (1961) -- For the Union Dead (1964) -- Near the Ocean (1967) -- History (1973) -- For Lizzie and Harriet (1973) -- The Dolphin (1973) -- Day by Day (1977) -- Last poems (1977) -- Appendices -- Index of titles.