A collection of conversations with Lowell and of critical reflections on his work
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 | Castine, Maine - Page 287That summer I visited them in Castine, Maine. The last evening we listened to American Civil War songs on the record player which very soon became ...more pages: 85 227 265 |
| Boston - Page 349Lowell taught and encouraged an unusually large number of poets in Boston. I had the opportunity to observe and develop in his atmosphere. ...more pages: 45 65 159 178 182 197 203 234 237 321 |
| Cambridge - Page 325It was from Lowell's disciples that I learned the main details of his life: that he lived in New York and came up to Cambridge for two days a week; ...more pages: 38 204 206 208 228 261 263 318 321 354 |
More | Berkeley - Page 15When he urged the poet to accept an invitation to teach at Berkeley during the revolutionary sixties, Lowell replied with a witty analogy: "Your ...more pages: 264 |
| Florence - Page 253The leader of the Ghibelline faction at Florence in the thirteenth century, immortalized by Dante in Inferno X as the savior of his country.more pages: 29 143 287 304 |
| New York - Page 233The long birth sequence will come before the Flight to New York, a stronger conclusion, and one oddly softening the effect by giving a reason other ...more pages: 94 116 124 155 192 215 218 234 287 325 |
| Hamburg - Page 164I became an objector after the saturation bombing of Hamburg and the proclamation of unconditional surrender. I feared too the Russians would control ...more pages: 143 |
| London - Page 218When he came into some restaurant, like we used to go to Chez Victor in London, one was immediately cheered by the mere sight of him, dropping shirt ...more pages: x 74 107 112 129 260 273 313 316 325 |
| Gambier, Ohio - Page 236John Thompson Forty years ago in the carpenter's Gothic of Douglass House, demolished now, at Gambier, Ohio, in the long gabled upstairs room he ... |
| Rome - Page 31But most of all he wanted to settle for the winter in Rome and get to work. Late in the evening we made off again. Lowell, unconscious of the rain, ...more pages: 30 133 138 226 |
| Dublin - Page 218Last week, he was in Dublin, where he met with Seamus Heaney. Seamus Heaney: The shock this morning was because he had been over in Ireland last week ...more pages: 247 |
| Danbury, Connecticut - Page 25His sentence was a year and a day (making it a felony, he points out) in the penitentiary at Danbury, Connecticut. ... |
| Bathsheba - Page 86"The Public Garden" is a recasting and clarification of an old confusing poem of mine called "David and Bathsheba in the Public Garden. ... |
| Berlin - Page 236shining she was, wearing a hat and gloves, tucked under her arm a mint copy from England of something mysterious to us, Goodbye to Berlin! ...more pages: 31 |
| Charlotte - Page 236Lowell has written about his mother Charlotte and his father the Naval Commander. Charlotte was a Snow Queen who flirted coldly and shamelessly with ... |
| Paterson - Page 159Olson's Maximus is Paterson and the Cantos, though woodier. Creeley is a slender, abstract Williams, Duncan is the music of Pound without his humour ... |
| Oxford - Page 313certainly; and all were certainly flattered by his having chosen us over the dullards of Oxford, about whom he was delightfully scathing. ...more pages: 337 |
| Boston, New York - Page 154I found I wrote about only four places: Harvard and Boston, New York and Maine. These were the places I lived in and also symbols, conscious and ... |
| Longwood - Page 202 |
| Evanston, Illinois - Page 320It wasn't enough simply to feel the poignance of life, a poignance that graced even Evanston on humid August nights when I coasted on my bicycle ...more pages: 319 330 |
| Brookline - Page 213Elegant tennis club in Brookline, Massachusetts. 4. See No. 20, note 13. 5. Latin: a fallacious mode of argument — literally, "after this, ...more pages: 196 |
| Santo Domingo - Page 212 |
| Amsterdam - Page 23During the winter in Amsterdam he had gone through most of the Niirnberg Trial Reports. Obviously from his conversation and his verse Lowell had read ...more pages: 29 142 |
| Saratoga Springs, New York - Page 213Salmagundi is a literary journal published at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. 1. Sexually erect, like a stem. 2. ... |
| Northampton - Page 307 |
| Toronto - Page 315 |
| Vienna - Page 24about the tombs of the Hapsburgs and the fact that the Hapsburg entrails were distributed all over the churches and monuments of Vienna in jars and ...more pages: 23 32 |
| Rennes - Page 209 |
| Paris - Page 31He wanted to come to Berlin very much; he had heard the RIAS25 Symphony do an all-Bartok concert in Paris in May, and he'd heard a lot about the ...more pages: 168 209 210 326 |
| Memphis - Page 265
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| Chicago - Page 320Farrell, and Nelson Algren had been inspired by Chicago, that Saul Bellow lived there now, or that in the early decades of the century there had been ...more pages: 73 334 |
| Dubuque - Page 201 |
| Exeter - Page 209 |
| Buffalo - Page 142But it's going to be a toothless little country, that can't throw a plastic bomb into Buffalo, or have sort of Rubens rapes of Buffalo women and carry ... |
| San Francisco - Page 351Originally I had wanted to spend my senior year in San Francisco rather than Boston, as I hoped to have a lot of "Sin" during this year away. ... |
| Olivet, Michigan - Page 257Then there was Ford Madox Ford, the only novelist in the list of mentors, whom he met in Boston in 1936 or 1937 and visited in Olivet, Michigan. ... |
| Plymouth - Page 211 |
| Madrid - Page 205 |
| Madison - Page 103I remember reading Henry Adams' History of Jefferson and Madison — it's rather sceptical history, far from idealising America (though it's different ...more pages: 364 |
| Dallas - Page 102Alvarez: The confusion has been staring right at you since the events in Dallas, hasn't it? But I wonder if the pervasiveness and inescapability of it ... |
| New Orleans - Page 326The other disciple of Lowell's I got to know that year was Winston Walker, a graduate student from New Orleans who attended the Kirkland House ... |
| Venice - Page 282Once in Venice when I had become impatient with being asked to locate yet another masterpiece — this time it was a particular painting by Titian in ... |
| Milwaukee - Page 332"He wanted me to come read in Milwaukee or somewhere like that against the war, but I'd already been to Washington and marched against the war, ... |
| Iowa City - Page 56I mean, the poems are about his child, his divorce, and Iowa City, and his child is a Dr. Spock child — all handled in expert little stanzas. ... |
| Cincinnati - Page 210As I take some photographs of all this, I have just had explained to me, by a Classics professor from Cincinnati, that xai ov,13 the name of our ... |
| Cleveland - Page 351A classmate went with me to the train station in Cleveland and, as he said goodbye, confessed that he was "an invert. ... |
| Salisbury - Page 330peering in through the steamed-up glass at the metal bins heaped high with carrots and lima beans, mashed potatoes and Salisbury steak. ... |
| Dartmouth, Massachusetts - Page 213Small town on Buzzards Bay, near Dartmouth, Massachusetts. 3. Elegant tennis club in Brookline, Massachusetts. 4. See No. 20, note 13. 5. ... |
| Naples - Page 230Stanley Kunitz On the afternoon of Tuesday, September 13, I was in Naples, in the flag- draped auditorium of the United States Information Center, ... |
| Philadelphia - Page 141It was way behind Philadelphia, and even New York. But somehow by about 1830 the other cities didn't exist for a while — and I mean by "Boston," not ... |
| Richards, IA - Page 368225, 235, 248, 257, 262, 337; "Conrad in Twilight," 25 Reich, Charles, 165 Rich, Adrienne, 18, 159, 355-356 Richards, IA, 50, 89, 207, 293 Ricks, ... |
| Buenos Aires - Page 257Once in the early 1960s I flew to Buenos Aires to persuade him to leave a clinic and his fantasies of that moment; after four days he agreed and we ... |
| Hiroshima - Page 46There are no statues for the last war here; on Boylston Street, a commercial photograph shows Hiroshima boiling over a Mosler Safe, the "Rock of Ages" ... |
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More | 254 | | | | | 274 | | | | Lowell in the Classroom | 288 | | | |
LessOther editions | by Robert Lowell, Jeffrey Meyers
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