Near the ocean / Robert Lowell ; drawings by Sidney Nolan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977.

Contributor:

Nolan, Sidney, 1917-1992.

Parker, Francis Stanley, illustrator.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Atha Tehon Thiras Art and Design Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Lask Poetry Collection.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Lask, Thomas (donor) (RBC copy)

Hecht, Roger (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

123 pages, 5 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1967]

Contents:

Near the ocean: Waking early Sunday morning; Fourth of July in Maine; The opposite house; Central Park; Near the ocean

For Theodore Roethke

1958

Spring

Serving under Brutus

Cleopatra

The vanity of human wishes

Brunetto Latini

The ruins of time.

Notes:

"Copyright 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967, by Robert Lowell."

Drawings Copyright 1967 by Sidney Nolan."

"Jacket illustrations by Francis Parker (front) and Sidney Nolan (back)."

Black boards with Sidney Nolan drawing stamped in blind with "RL" lettered in grey on front cover; spine lettered in gilt and red. Red endpapers.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy is "Second printing, 1967".

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by Roger Hecht on front flyleaf.

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

Tehon Collection copy is "First printing, 1967".

OCLC:

1128858