Life studies / Robert Lowell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977.

Contributor:

Parker, Francis Stanley, illustrator.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Lask Poetry Collection.

Penn Provenance:

Lask, Thomas (donor) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 90 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus, and Cudahy, [1959]

Language Note:

Awarded the National Book Award for Poetry in 1960.

Contents:

Part One. Beyond the Alps; The banker's daughter; Inauguration day: January 1953; A mad Negro soldier confined at Munich

Part Two. 91 Revere Street

Part Three. Ford Madox Ford; For George Santayana; To Delmore Schwartz; Words for Hart Crane

Part Four: Life Studies. My last afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow; Dunbarton; Grandparents; Commander Lowell; Terminal days at Beverly Farms; Father's bedroom; For sale; Sailing home from Rapallo; During fever; Waking in the blue; Home after three months away; II. Memories of West Street and Lepke; Man and wife; "To speak of woe that is in marriage"; Skunk hour.

Notes:

With half-title.

Illustrated title-page.

"Copyright 1956, 1959 by Robert Lowell."

"Title-Page and jacket drawing by Frank Parker."

This book marks the beginning of the confessional poetry movement.

Light green cloth boards lettered in black on spine.

Price from dustjacket.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy is "First Printing April, 1959".

OCLC:

1210890