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Robert Lowell: A Biography

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by Ian Hamilton


  Adams, Henry, 1

  Adams, John Quincy, 1

  Adams, Leonie, 1

  Adden, Ann, 1, 2 Lowell’s affair with, 1, 2, 3

  Lowell’s breakdowns and, 1, 2

  Lowell’s poem to, 1

  “Adolf Hitler von Linz (Siegfried)” (Lowell), as parody of Pound, 1

  Aeschylus, 1, 2

  “Afterlife, The” (Lowell), 1

  “After the Surprising Conversions” (Lowell), 1, 2

  Agrarian movement, 1, 2, 3

  Aiken, Conrad, 1

  Albee, Edward, 1

  Alberti, Rafael, 1

  Alfred, William, 1, 2, 3 Lowell’s breakdowns and, 1, 2

  Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Lowell’s friendship with, 1, 2

  in Lowell’s separation, 1

  on publication of Dolphin, 1, 2

  “Alfred Corning Clark” (Lowell), 1

  Allen, Donald M., 1

  All Souls College, Oxford, 1, 2

  Alvarez, A., 1, 2, 3 on Lowell and Berryman, 1

  Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2

  American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1, 2

  American Dream, An (Mailer), 1

  American Place Theatre, New York City: founding of, 1

  Lowell’s memorial at, 1

  Old Glory presented at, 1, 2, 3

  American Poetry Review, 1

  American Scholar, 1

  American University of Cairo, 1

  Ames, Elizabeth, 1 Lowell’s charges against, 1, 2

  in Yaddo affair, 1, 2

  Ames, Van Meter, 1

  Anderson, Sherwood, 1

  Arendt, Hannah, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Armies of the Night, The (Mailer), 1

  Arnold, Matthew, 1, 2

  “At a Bible House” (Lowell), 1, 2

  Atlas, James, 1

  “At the Fishhouses” (Bishop), 1

  “At the Indian Killer’s Grave” (Lowell), 1

  Auden, W. H., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 on Bollingen Prize committee, 1

  as influence on Lowell, 1, 2

  in Lowell’s Oxford nomination, 1

  poetic style of, 1

  on publication of Dolphin, 1

  Babel, Isaak E., 1

  Baldpate Hospital, 1, 2

  “Banker’s Daughter, The” (Lowell), 1

  Barnard College, 1, 2

  Barrett, William, 1

  Baudelaire, Charles P., 1 Lowell’s translated version of, 1, 2, 3

  Baumel, Judith, 1

  Bay of Pigs episode, 1

  Beat poets, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Bedient, Calvin, 1

  Beer, Patricia, 1

  “Before We Are” (Lowell), 1

  Bellitt, Ben, 1

  Bellow, Saul, 1, 2

  Benalek murder trial, 1, 2

  Benito Cereno (Lowell), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 see also Old Glory, The (Lowell)

  “Benito Cereno” (Melville), 1, 2, 3

  Bennett, Joseph, 1

  Bent, Martha, 1

  Bentley, Eric, 1

  Berenson, Bernard, 1

  Berlin, Isaiah, 1, 2

  Bernard, Viola, as Lowell’s therapist, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Berryman, John, 1, 2, 3, 4 in Bollingen Prize controversy, 1

  death of, 1

  as influence on Lowell, 1

  Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Lowell’s elegy for, 1

  Lowell’s obituary article for, 1

  Lowell’s view of, 1

  on meeting Pound, 1

  “obituary” letter of, 1, 2

  as “victim hero,” 1

  Bettman, Elizabeth, 1

  Bettman, Gilbert, 1

  “Between the Porch and the Altar” (Lowell), 1, 2

  “Beyond the Alps” (Lowell), 1, 2

  Catholic Church as viewed in, 1

  Biala, Janice, 1, 2

  on Benfolly, 1

  Bible, 1

  Bidart, Frank, 1, 2, 3, 4 editorial work of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  on Lowell’s death, 1

  Lowell’s illnesses and, 1, 2

  on Lowells’ separation, 1

  Bing, Rudolf, 1

  Bishop, Elizabeth, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 in Brazil, 1

  on Dolphin, 1, 2

  on Hardwick, 1

  homosexuality of, 1

  on Lowell’s personal history, 1

  Lowell’s relationship with, 1, 2, 3

  on meeting Pound, 1

  poetic style of, 1

  Bishop, John Peale, 1

  Bit Between My Teeth, The (Wilson), 1

  Black Mountain, 1, 2

  Blackmur, R. P., 1, 2, 3

  death of, 1, 2

  Blackwood, Lady Caroline, 1 background of, 1

  on “Beatnik Movement,” 1

  drinking of, 1, 2

  on Lowell at Harvard, 1

  in Lowell’s autobiographical writings, 1, 2, 3

  Lowell’s breakdowns and, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Lowell’s child with, see Lowell, Sheridan

  Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

  on Lowell’s death, 1

  Lowell’s estrangement from, 1, 2

  Lowell’s first meeting with, 1

  Lowell’s marriage to, 1

  nervous depressions of, 1, 2

  in non-traditional medical treatments, 1

  pregnancy of, 1

  Blake, William, 1

  Blunden, Edmund, 1, 2

  Bogan, Louise, 1, 2, 3

  Bollingen Prize for Poetry, 1, 2

  Booth, Edwin, 1

  Booth, Philip: Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3

  Meredith’s correspondence with, 1

  Boston Adventure (Stafford), 1, 2 success of, 1

  “Boston: A Lost Ideal” (Hardwick), 1

  Boston Arts Festival (1960), 1

  Boston Post, 1

  Boston Psychopathic Hospital, 1, 2

  Boston Sunday Globe, 1

  Boston University, 1, 2

  Botsford, Keith, 1 Lowell’s breakdowns and, 1

  on Lowell’s physical strength, 1

  Botteghe Oscure, 1

  Bower, Anthony, 1

  Bowles, Kitty, 1

  Bowling Green Sentinel, 1

  Bowra, Sir Maurice, 1, 2

  Breit, Harvey, 1

  Brimmer Boys and Girls’ School, 1

  Broadwater, Bowden, 1, 2

  Brook, Peter, 1

  Brooks, Cleanth, 1, 2, 3

  Brooks, Esmé, 1

  Brooks, Esther, 1

  Brooks, Shepherd, 1, 2, 3

  Brown, George Mackay, 1

  Brown, Harry, 1, 2

  Browne, Gareth, 1

  Browning, Robert, 1, 2, 3

  Brownjohn, Alan, 1

  Bruner, Jerome, 1

  Brustein, Robert, 1, 2

  Büchner, Georg, 1

  Buckman, Gertrude, 1, 2, 3 Lowell’s affair with, 1, 2, 3

  Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3

  Lowell’s engagement to, 1, 2

  “Buenos Aires” (Lowell), 1

  Bullock, Alan, 1

  Bundy, McGeorge, 1

  Burke, Edmund, 1

  Caetani, Princess, 1

  “Caligula” (Lowell), 1

  Cambridge University, 1

  Campbell, Roy, 1

  Cantos (Pound), 1, 2

  Carruth, Hayden, 1

  Catholicism, Catholic Church, 1 Lowell’s abandonment of, 1, 2

  Lowell’s conversion to, 1

  Lowell’s view of, 1

  as poetic subject, 1, 2, 3

  Catholic Worker, 1

  Center for Intercultural Documentation, Cuernavaca, 1

  “Central Park” (Lowell), 1

  Chaucer, Geoffrey, 1

  Cheever, John, 1

  Chilton, Mary (ancestor), 1

  Chomsky, Noam, 1, 2

  “Christmas Eve in Time of War” (Lowell), 1

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sp; “Christmas in Black Rock” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Cincinnati, University of, 1, 2

  Citkovitz, Israel, 1, 2, 3 death of, 1

  Civil War, U.S., 1

  Clark, Blair, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 artistic pursuits of, 1

  Bernard’s correspondence with, 1

  Charlotte Lowell described by, 1

  on Charlotte Lowell’s death, 1, 2

  Hardwick’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  on Kennedys, 1

  on Lowell’s accent, 1

  Lowell’s breakdowns and, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  on Lowell’s car accident, 1

  Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18

  on Lowell’s estrangement from Blackwood, 1

  in Lowell’s estrangement from Hardwick, 1, 2, 3, 4

  on Lowell’s politics, 1

  as Lowell’s schoolmate, 1

  as McCarthy’s campaign manager, 1

  on Madonia, 1

  Madonia’s correspondence with, 1

  on meeting Ford, 1

  Nantucket retreat of (1935), 1

  Nantucket retreat of (1936), 1

  Southern trip of, 1

  Stafford cared for by, 1, 2

  in Vetra affair, 1, 2

  on Vietnam, 1

  Clark, Eleanor, 1

  Clark, Holly, 1

  Clark, William S., 1

  Coghill, Nevill, 1

  Collins, William, 1

  “Colloquy in Black Rock” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3

  Colorado, University of, 1

  Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Neurological Institute of, 1

  Columbia University, student riots at, 1

  “Commander Lowell” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3

  Commentary, 1

  Commonweal, 1, 2

  Communism, 1 Pound affair and, 1

  Vietnam War and, 1, 2

  at Yaddo, 1

  “Concord” (Lowell), 1

  Congress for Cultural Freedom, 1 Caracas conference of, 1

  Conrad, Joseph, 1

  Corso, Gregory, 1, 2

  Cotting, Sarah (aunt), 1 Lowell’s correspondence with, 1

  “Country Love Story, A” (Stafford), 1

  Cousins, Norman, 1

  Cowley, Malcolm, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Cox, George J., 1

  Cram, Ralph Adams, 1

  Crane, Hart, Lowell’s poem on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Criterion, 1

  Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 1

  Crosby, Caresse, 1

  Crosby, Harry, 1

  Crystal Sepulcher, The (Eberhart), Lowell as model for, 1

  Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, 1

  Cummington Press, 1

  Cunningham, Jim, 1

  Curtis, Charles P., 1

  Daiches, David, 1

  Dante Alighieri, 1, 2 Lowell’s translated version of, 1

  Danton’s Death (Büchner), 1

  Davie, Donald, 1

  Davis, Lambert, 1

  Davison, Natalie, 1

  “Dawn” (“Morning”) (Lowell), 1

  Dawson, Carley, 1 Lowell’s affair with, 1, 2

  Lowell’s engagement to, 1

  Dawson, Christopher, 1

  Day by Day (Lowell), 1, 2

  “Dead in Europe, The” (Lowell), 1

  “Dea Roma” (Lowell), 1

  “Death of the Sheriff, The” (Lowell), 1

  “Declaration of Personal Responsibility” (Lowell), 1

  Delight, Ben, 1

  Devine, George, 1

  Dial Press, 1

  Dick, Anne Tuckerman, 1, 2, 3 as Lowell’s disciple, 1

  Lowell’s engagement to, 1, 2

  Lowell’s estrangement from, 1

  Lowell’s first meetings with, 1

  Dick, Evans, 1, 2

  Dickens, Charles, 1

  Dickinson, Peter, 1

  Dolphin, The (Lowell), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 critical responses to, 1, 2

  Dominican Republic, U.S. intervention in, 1, 2

  “Dover Beach” (Arnold), 1

  “Downlook, The” (Lowell), 1

  Dream Songs, see 77 Dream Songs (Berryman)

  “Drinker, The” (Lowell), 1

  “Drunken Fishermen, The” (Lowell), 1

  Dryden, John, 1, 2

  Dugan, Alan, 1

  “Dunbarton” (Lowell), 1

  Duncan, Harry, 1

  Dunham, Vera, 1

  Dupee, F. W., 1, 2 on Life Studies, 1

  “During Fever” (Lowell), 1

  Eberhart, Richard: Crystal Sepulcher of, 1

  as inspiration to Lowell, 1

  on Life Studies, 1

  on Lord Weary’s Castle, 1

  Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3

  Lowell’s criticisms of, 1, 2

  Lowell’s estrangement from, 1

  on Mills of the Kavanaughs, 1

  on poetry, 1

  Edwards, Philip, 1, 2, 3

  Ehrenpreis, Irvin, 1

  Ehrlich, Leonard, 1, 2

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., 1, 2

  Eliot, Henry Ware, 1

  Eliot, T. S., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 on Bollingen Prize committee, 1

  death of, 1, 2

  as influence on Lowell, 1, 2

  Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3

  Lowell’s instability and, 1

  Lowell’s views on, 1

  poetic style of, 1, 2

  Tate’s correspondence with, 1

  on title for Imitations, 1

  Eliot, Valerie, 1

  Ellison, Ralph, 1

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1

  Empson, William, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Encounter, 1

  “Endecott and the Red Cross” (Hawthorne), 1, 2

  Endecott and the Red Cross (Lowell), 1 see also Old Glory, The (Lowell)

  Engle, Paul, 1

  “Englishman Abroad, An,” see “Words for Hart Crane” (Lowell)

  “Epilogue” (Lowell), 1

  “Epitaph of a Fallen Poet,” see “Words for Hart Crane” (Lowell)

  Epstein, Barbara, 1

  Epstein, Jason, 1

  Erba, Luciano, 1

  Essays in Musical Analysis (Tovey), 1

  Essex, University of, 1, 2, 3, 4

  “Exile’s Return, The” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3

  Experiment group, 1

  “Eye and Tooth” (Lowell), 1 Lowell’s anguish reflected in, 1

  Faber and Faber, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  “Falling Asleep Over the Aeneid” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3

  “Fall 1961” (Lowell), 1 as response to nuclear threat, 1

  Far Field, The (Roethke), 1

  Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1

  Fathers, The (Tate), 1

  Faulkner, William, 1 Faure, Elie, 2

  Feiffer, Jules, 1, 2

  Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 1

  Fidelio (Beethoven), 1

  Finney, Thomas, 1

  Fitts, Dudley, 1

  Fitzgerald, Robert, 1, 2, 3, 4 on Lowell’s reaction to Yaddo affair, 1, 2, 3

  on Lowell’s religious mania, 1

  Fitzgerald, Sally, 1

  Flaubert, Gustave, 1 Lowell’s poem on, 1

  “Florida” (Bishop), 1

  Fludd, Robert, 1

  Ford, Ford Madox, 1, 2, 3 at Benfolly, 1

  lecture style of, 1

  Lowell as secretary to, 1

  Lowell’s poem on, 1, 2

  at Olivet College, 1, 2

  at University of Colorado, 1

  Ford, George, 1

  Ford Foundation: Lowell’s grant from, 1

  “opera study” grants from, 1

  “Ford Madox Ford” (Lowell), 1, 2

  Foreground, 1

  “For George Santayana, 1863” (“Santayana’s Farewell to His Nurses”) (Lowell), 1, 2, 3, 4

  For Lizzie and Harriet (Lowell), 1, 2 critical responses to, 1

  For the Time Being (Auden), 1

  For the Union Dead (Lowel
l), 1, 2 critical responses to, 1

  in Lowell’s career, 1

  royalties from, 1

  “For the Union Dead” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3 style of, 1

  subject of, 1, 2

  Fortune (ship), 1

  Four Quartets (Eliot), 1

  “Fourth of July in Maine” (Lowell), 1, 2

  Franklin, Benjamin, 1

  Fraser, G. S., 1

  Frazier, Katherine, 1

  Fremantle, Anne, 1

  Freud, Lucien, 1

  Freud, Sigmund, 1

  “Friend Across Central Park” (Lowell), 1

  “From the Steps of Harvard Gym” (Lowell), 1

  Frost, Robert, 1, 2, 3, 4 death of, 1, 2, 3

  at Harvard, 1, 2

  Lowell criticized by, 1

  Lowell’s lectures on, 1, 2

  Fuentes, Carlos, 1

  Fugitive, 1

  Fugitive group, 1, 2

  Fulford, Roger, 1

  Fuller, Roy, 1

  “Fury of Aerial Bombardment, The” (Eberhart), 1

  Garden of Adonis, The (Gordon), 1

  Gardner, Isabella, 1, 2 Lowell’s correspondence with, 1

  Gaudier-Brzeska, Henri, 1

  “Ghost, The” (Lowell), 1

  Ghostly Lover, The (Hardwick), 1

  Gilson, Etienne, 1

  Ginsberg, Allen, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Giroux, Robert, 1, 2, 3, 4 Lowell’s breakdowns and, 1, 2

  Lowell’s correspondence with, 1

  as Lowell’s editor, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  on Lowell’s Hollywood offers, 1

  on Lowell’s lithium overdose, 1

  on Lowell’s manic behavior, 1

  Goldman, Eric F., 1

  Goldwater, Barry, 1

  Góngora y Argote, Luis de, Lowell’s translated version of, 1

 

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