Selected poems / Robert Lowell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977.

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xvi, 420 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

Expanded edition, first expanded edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

Summary:

." . .Over 200 works, culled from each of Lowell's books of verse. . . are a perfectly chosen representation of 'the greatest American poet of the mid-century.'"--Richard Poirier, "Book Week."

Contents:

from Lord Weary's Castle (1946)

The Exile's Return 3

The Holy Innocents 4

Colloquy in Black Rock 5

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket 6

In Memory of Arthur Winslow (Death from Cancer) 11

Mary Winslow 12

The Drunken Fisherman 13

Between the Porch and the Altar 15

The Ghost 19

In the Cage 22

At the Indian Killer's Grave 23

Mr. Edwards and the Spider 26

After the Surprising Conversions 28

The Death of the Sheriff (Noli Me Tangere) 30

Where the Rainbow Ends 31

from The Mills of the Kavanaughs (1951)

The Mills of the Kavanaughs 35

Falling Asleep over the Aeneid 38

Her Dead Brother 41

Mother Marie Therese 42

The Fat Man in the Mirror 46

Thanksgiving's Over 47

Life Studies (1959)

Beyond the Alps 53

The Banker's Daughter 55

Inauguration Day: January 1953 57

A Mad Negro Soldier Confined at Munich 58

91 Revere Street 61

Ford Madox Ford 95

For George Santayana 97

To Delmore Schwartz 99

Words for Hart Crane 101

Part 4 Life Studies

My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow 105

Dunbarton 110

Grandparents 112

Commander Lowell 114

Terminal Days at Beverly Farms 117

Father's Bedroom 119

For Sale 120

Sailing Home from Rapallo 121

During Fever 123

Waking in the Blue 125

Home After Three Months Away 127

Memories of West Street and Lepke 129

Man and Wife 131

"To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage" 132

Skunk Hour 133

from For the Union Dead (1964)

Water 137

The Old Flame 139

Middle Age 141

The Mouth of the Hudson 142

Fall 1961 143

Florence 144

Eye and Tooth 146

Alfred Corning Clark 148

Child's Song 150

The Public Garden 151

Going to and fro 152

Myopia: a Night 154

The Drinker 156

Hawthorne 158

Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts 160

Tenth Muse 164

The Neo-Classical Urn 165

Caligula 167

July in Washington 169

Buenos Aires 170

Soft Wood 172

New York 1962: Fragment 174

The Flaw 175

Night Sweat 177

For the Union Dead 178

from Near the Ocean (1967)

Near the Ocean 183

1 Waking Early Sunday Morning 183

2 Fourth of July in Maine 187

3 The Opposite House 191

4 Central Park 192

5 Near the Ocean 194

from History (1973)

History 199

Man and Woman 199

Alexander 200

Death of Alexander 200

Hannibal 1. Roman Disaster at the Trebia 201

Marcus Cato 234-149 B.C. 201

Marcus Cato 95-46 B.C. 202

Cicero, the Sacrificial Killing 202

Nunc est bibendum, Cleopatra's Death 203

Juvenal's Prayer 203

Attila, Hitler 204

Mohammed 204

Death of Count Roland 205

Joinville and Louis IX 205

Dante 3. Buonconte 206

Dames du Temps Jadis 206

Coleridge and Richard II 207

Bosworth Field 207

Sir Thomas More 208

Anne Boleyn 208

Death of Anne Boleyn 209

Charles V by Titian 209

Marlowe 210

Mary Stuart 210

Rembrandt 211

The Worst Sinner, Jonathan Edwards' God 211

Watchmaker God 212

Robespierre and Mozart as Stage 212

Saint-Just 1767-93 213

Napoleon 213

Waterloo 214

Beethoven 214

Coleridge 215

The Lost Tune 215

Margaret Fuller Drowned 216

Abraham Lincoln 216

Verdun 217

Dream of Fair Ladies 217

Serpent 218

Words 218

Sunrise 219

Randall Jarrell 1. October 1965 219

Randall Jarrell 2 220

Randall Jarrell 3 220

T. S. Eliot 221

Ezra Pound 221

William Carlos Williams 222

Robert Frost 222

Stalin 223

Caracas 1 223

The March 1 224

The March 2 224

Worse Times 225

Ulysses 225

Fever 226

Two Walls 226

For Robert Kennedy 1925-68 227

For Eugene McCarthy 227

Publication Day 228

Levi-Strauss in London 228

The Nihilist as Hero 229

Reading Myself 229

For Elizabeth Bishop 4 230

Death and the Bridge 230

Ice 231

End of a Year 231

from For Lizzie and Harriet (1973)

Harriet, born January 4, 1957 235

Harriet 235

Elizabeth 236

These Winds (Harriet) 236

Harriet 237

Snake 238

Christmas Tree 238

Dear Sorrow 239

Harriet's Dream 239

Left Out of Vacation 240

Das Ewig Weibliche 240

Our Twentieth Wedding Anniversary (Elizabeth) 241

The Hard Way (Harriet)? 241

Words for Muffin, a Guinea-Pig 242

End of Camp Alamoosook (Harriet) 242

Bringing a Turtle Home 243

Returning Turtle 243

Growth (Harriet) 244

The Graduate (Elizabeth) 244

Long Summer 245

No Hearing 245

No Hearing 246

Outlivers (Harriet and Elizabeth) 246

My Heavenly Shiner (Elizabeth) 247

It Did (Elizabeth) 247

Seals 248

Obit 248

from The Dolphin (1973)

Fishnet 251

Window 251

The Serpent 252

Symptoms 252

Voices 253

Old Snapshot from Venice 1952 253

Fall Weekend at Milgate 254

Records 255

Mermaid 256

In the Mail 258

Flounder 258

Exorcism 259

Plotted 259

The Couple 260

Artist's Model 260

Mermaid Emerging 261

Angling 261

Leaf-Lace Dress 262

Late Summer at Milgate 262

Robert Sheridan Lowell 263

Careless Night 263

Wildrose 264

Ivana 264

Lost Fish 265

Sick 265

Plane-Ticket 266

Christmas 266

Christmas 267

Dolphin 267

from Selected Poems (1976)

Nineteen Thirties

First Things 273

First Love 273

1930's 274

Searching 274

1930's 275

1930's 276

Bobby Delano 276

1930's 277

Long Summers 277

Long Summers 278

1930's 279

Anne Dick 1 1936 280

Anne Dick 2 1936 280

Father 281

Mother and Father 1 281

Mother and Father 2 282

Returning 282

Mother, 1972 283

Father in a Dream 283

To Daddy 284

Will Not Come Back 284

Mexico

Mexico (1, 3-10) 287

Eight Months Later 292

1 Eight Months Later 292

2 Die Gold-Orangen 292

from Day by Day (1977)

Ulysses and Circe 295

Our Afterlife 1 302

For John Berryman 304

Square of Black 306

In the Ward 308

Day by Day

The Day 310

Domesday Book 311

Marriage 314

Robert T. S. Lowell 317

For Sheridan 319

Grass Fires 320

St. Mark's, 1933 322

Suburban Surf 324

Ten Minutes 326

Notice 328

Shifting Colors 329

Unwanted 331

The Downlook 335

Thanks-Offering for Recovery 337

from Last Poems (1977)

Summer Tides 341.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0374530068

9780374530068

OCLC:

62089978

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