Robert Lowell: A Biography

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by Ian Hamilton


  M (Moore), 1

  MacArthur Report, 1, 2

  Macaulay, Thomas B., 1

  Macauley, Anne, 1, 2 Hardwick’s correspondence with, 1, 2

  Lowell’s correspondence with, 1

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

  Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3

  on Lowell’s mental state, 1

  McCarthy, Eugene, 1, 2 as intellectual, 1, 2

  Presidential bid of (1968), 1, 2

  McCarthy, Joseph R., 1

  McCarthy, Mary, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Lowell’s breakdown and, 1

  at Lowell’s wedding to Hardwick, 1

  McCormick, John, 1

  Macdonald, Dwight, 1, 2, 3 in anti-war campaign, 1, 2

  Macdowell, David, 1

  McGinley, Phyllis, 1

  McGrory, Mary, 1

  McLean Hospital, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  MacLeish, Archibald, 1

  MacNeice, Louis, 1 death of, 1, 2

  “Mad Negro Soldier Confined at Munich, A” (Lowell), 1, 2

  Madonia, Giovanna, 1, 2 Lowell’s affair with, 1, 2, 3

  Lowell’s engagement to, 1, 2

  marriage of, 1

  “Madonna” (Lowell), 1

  Mailer, Norman, 1 in anti-war campaign, 1, 2, 3

  on Lowell, 1

  Maisel, Edward, 1 Malamud, Bernard, 2

  Malcolm X, 1

  Mallarmé, Stéphane, 1 Lowell’s translated version of, 1

  Malraux, André, 1

  “Man and Wife” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3 drafts and revisiosn of, 1

  Manchester Guardian, 1

  “Mania” (Lowell), 1

  “Man-Moth” (Bishop), 1

  Mao Tse-tung, 1

  March of Literature, The (Ford), 1

  “Marriage?” (Lowell), 1

  Marvell, Andrew, 1, 2

  “Mary Winslow” (Lowell), 1

  Masque of Reason, A (Frost), 1

  Massachusetts General Hospital, 1

  Mather, Cotton, 1

  Mayflower, 1, 2, 3

  “Maypole at Merry Mount, The” (Hawthorne), 1, 2

  Mein Kampf (Hitler), 1

  Melville, Herman, as prose source for Lowell, 1, 2

  Memoirs of Napoleon (Abrantès), 1

  “Memories of West Street and Lepke” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3

  Meredith, William, 1, 2, 3, 4 on Ford Foundation “opera study” grants, 1

  Lowell’s breakdowns and, 1, 2

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

  Mermaid Theatre, London, 1

  Merrick, David, 1

  Merton, Thomas, 1

  Merwin, Dido, 1

  Merwin, W. S., 1

  Metropolitan Opera, 1

  “Middle Age” (Lowell), 1

  Migdal, Low and Tenny, 1

  Miller, Jonathan, 1, 2, 3, 4 Lowell’s breakdowns and, 1, 2

  Lowell’s partnership with, 1, 2

  on Lowell’s sense of theater, 1

  Mills of the Kavanaughs, The (Lowell), 1, 2, 3, 4

  Eberhart on, 1

  Jarrell on, 1, 2, 3

  mixed reception of, 1

  Stafford as model for, 1

  Williams on, 1

  “Mills of the Kavanaughs, The” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Milton, John, 1

  “Misanthrope and the Painter, The” (Lowell), 1

  Mizener, Arthur, 1, 2

  Moby Dick (Melville), 1

  Moment in American Poetry, A (Lowell), 1

  Montale, Eugenio, 1, 2 Lowell’s translated version of, 1, 2

  Monteith, Charles, 1 Giroux’s correspondence with, 1

  Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2

  in Lowell’s Oxford nomination, 1

  Moore, Marianne, 1, 2, 3

  Moore, Merrill, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Charlotte Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2

  Charlotte Lowell’s relationship with, 1, 2

  as go-between for Lowells, 1, 2, 3

  Lowell biography proposed by, 1

  as Lowell’s acting guardian, 1

  Lowell’s breakdowns and, 1, 2, 3

  Lowell’s correspondence with, 1

  Lowell’s education and, 1, 2, 3, 4

  on Lowell’s parents, 1, 2

  Lowell’s psyche as viewed by, 1, 2

  as poet, 1, 2

  Mordecai, Deborah (great-grandmother), 1

  “Morning” (“Dawn”) (Lowell), 1

  “Morning After Dining with a Friend” (Lowell), 1

  Morton, Thomas, as prose source for Lowell, 1

  Moss, Howard, 1

  “Mother Marie Therese” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3

  Motherwell, Robert, 1

  Motley, John Lothrop, 1, 2

  Mountain Lion, The (Stafford), 1

  Mozart, Wolfgang A., 1, 2, 3

  “Mr. Edwards and the Spider” (Lowell), 1, 2

  Muggeridge, Malcolm, 1

  Muir, Edwin, 1

  Myers, Mordecai (ancestor), 1

  “My Kinsman Major Molyneux” (Hawthorne), 1, 2, 3

  My Kinsman Major Molyneux (Lowell), 1, 2 See also Old Glory, The (Lowell)

  “My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3

  Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of France, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Nation, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  National Endowment for the Arts, 1

  Near the Ocean (Lowell), 1 critical responses to, 1

  lavish appearance of, 1

  “Near the Ocean” (Lowell), 1, 2

  Neruda, Pablo, 1

  New American Poetry 1945, The (Allen), 1

  “New Canaan” (Morton), 1 see also Old Glory, The (Lowell)

  New Criticism, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Newman, John Henry, Cardinal, 1

  New Poets of England and America, The eds. Hall, Pack, and Simpson), 1, 2

  New Priest in Conception Bay, The (Lowell), 1

  New Republic, 1, 2

  New School for Social Research, 1

  New Statesman, 1, 2, 3

  New York City Opera, 1

  “New York Intellectual” (Lowell), 1

  New York Review of Books, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  founding of, 1

  New York Times, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 White House Arts Festival affair covered in, 1, 2

  New York Times Book Review, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  “Next Dream, The” (Lowell), 1 prose source for, 1

  Nicholson, Norman, 1

  “Night Sweat” (Lowell), 1

  Nims, John Frederick, 1

  “1958” (Lowell), 1, 2

  “1939” (Taylor), 1 Lowell as model for, 1

  “91 Revere Street” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3, 4 drafts of, 1

  psychotic episode described in, 1, 2

  Nixon, Richard M., 1 Presidential bid of (1968), 1

  Nolan, Cynthia, 1

  Nolan, Sidney, 1, 2, 3 Near the Ocean illustrated by, 1

  on Notebook sources, 1

  North and South (Bishop), 1, 2

  Notebook (Lowell), 1, 2, 3 aesthetic of, 1

  Lowell’s revisions of, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Notebook 1967 (Lowell), 1 critical responses to, 1

  sources for, 1

  themes of, 1

  Nuremberg trials, 1, 2

  Objectivism, 1

  O’Connor, Flannery, 1 at Yaddo, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  “Ode to the Confederate Dead” (Tate), 1

  “Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland” (Marvell), 1

  “Off Central Park” (Lowell), 1

  “Old Flame, The” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3

  Old Glory, The (trilogy) (Lowell), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 critical responses to, 1, 2

  Obie awards won for, 1

  original vs. Lowell’s texts in, 1

  prose sources for, 1, 2

  shortcomings of, 1

  Olivet College, 1

  Olivier, Laurence, 1

  Olson, Charles, 1

  “On the Eve of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, 1942” (Low
ell), 1

  “Opus Posthumous” (Berryman), 1

  Orwell, Sonia, 1, 2

  Oxford University, Poetry Professorship at, 1

  Pack, Robert, 1

  Parker, Frank, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 artistic pursuits of, 1, 2

  Charlotte Lowell described by, 1

  Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3

  Lowell’s poem to, 1

  as Lowell’s schoolmate, 1

  Lowell’s view of, 1, 2

  Nantucket retreat of (1935), 1, 2

  at St. Mark’s reunion, 1

  Southern trip of, 1

  Parker, Lesley, on Lowell’s wedding to Hardwick, 1

  Parkman, Francis, 1, 2

  Partisan Review, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 “Cold War and the West” symposium of, 1

  politics at, 1, 2

  Pasternak, Boris, 1, 2, 3, 4 Lowell’s translated version of, 1, 2, 3

  Paterson (Williams), 1, 2, 3

  Patriotic Gore (Wilson), 1

  Patton, 1

  Pauling, Linus, 1

  Payne Whitney Clinic, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Peabody, George Foster, 1

  Pearson, Gabriel, 1, 2

  Peck, Jim, 1

  Penguin Book of Italian Verse (trans. Kay), 1, 2

  Perloff, Marjorie, 1

  Perse, St.-John, 1

  Perspectives USA, 1

  Persuasion (Austen), 1

  Phaedra—A Verse Translation of Racine’s Phèdre (Lowell), 1, 2, 3 Racine’s version vs., 1

  Phèdre (Racine), 1, 2, 3

  Phelan, Kappo, 1

  “Phillips House Revisited” (Lowell), 1

  Philosophy of Thomas Aquinas (Gilson), 1

  Picasso, Pablo, 1

  Piker, Philip, 1

  Pisan Cantos (Pound), 1

  Plath, Sylvia, 1, 2 death of, 1

  Playboy, 1

  Plimpton, George, 1

  Plutarch, 1

  Poems 1938 (Lowell), 1

  Poetry, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Poetry Book Society, 1

  Poetry International (1963), 1

  “Poetry of Confession, The” (Rosenthai), 1

  Poirier, Richard, 1

  Pope, Alexander, 1

  Porter, Katherine Anne, 1, 2

  Pound, Ezra, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Bollingen Prize awarded to, 1, 2

  death of, 1

  Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3

  Lowell’s parody of, 1

  Lowell’s view of, 1

  at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, 1, 2

  Powers, J. F., 1, 2, 3 Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3

  Pritchard, William, 1

  Profiles in Courage (Kennedy), 1

  Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus), Lowell’s adaptation of, 1, 2, 3

  “Protestant Dead in Boston, The” (Lowell), 1

  Prout, Curtis, 1

  Providence Journal, 1

  “Public Garden, The” (Lowell), 1

  Pulitzer prize, 1

  Punch, 1

  Pushkin, Aleksandr S., 1

  “Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket, The” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3

  Queen of Spades, The (Tchaikovsky), 1

  Quevedo, Francisco Gómez de, Lowell’s translated version of, 1

  Quinn, Patrick, 1 on Lowell’s conversion ceremony, 1

  Raban, Jonathan, 1 on Dolphin, 1

  on Lowell as country squire, 1

  on Lowell’s manic behavior, 1, 2

  on Lowell’s revisions, 1

  Racine, Jean, 1, 2

  Rahv, Natalie, 1

  Rahv, Philip, 1, 2, 3 poetic reference to, 1

  Raleigh, Sir Walter, 1, 2

  Ransom, John Crowe, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 Boston visits of, 1, 2

  death of, 1

  at Kenyon College, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Lowell’s correspondence with, 1, 2, 3

  as Lowell’s mentor, 1

  on Lowell’s poetic style, 1, 2

  Lowell’s relationship with, 1

  in move to Kenyon College, 1, 2

  poetic style of, 1, 2

  at Vanderbilt, 1

  “Rebellion” (Lowell), 1

  Rembrandt van Rijn, 1

  Reston, James, 1

  Rich, Adrienne, 1 on Dolphin, 1

  Meredith’s correspondence with, 1

  Richards, Dorothea, 1

  Richards, Ivor A., 1, 2

  Ricks, Christopher, 1, 2

  Rilke, Rainer Maria, 1 Lowell’s translated version of, 1, 2, 3

  Rimbaud, Arthur, Lowell’s translated version, 1, 2

  Rise of the Dutch Republic (Motley), 1, 2

  Ritter, Martha, 1, 2, 3

  Rivers, Larry, 1

  Rivers School, 1

  Rodman, Selden, 1

  Roethke, Theodore, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 careerism of, 1

  in competition with Lowell, 1

  death of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Lowell’s correspondence with, 1

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., Lowell’s letter to, 1, 2

  Rosenkavalier, Der (Strauss), 1

  Rosenthal, M. L., 1

  Ross, James, 1

  Rossetti, Christina, 1

  Roth, Philip, 1, 2, 3, 4

  Rothenberg, Alan Baer, 1

  Rothko, Mark, 1

  Royal Shakespeare Company (London), 1

  “Runaway” (Lowell), 1

  Sacco and Vanzetti case, 1, 2

  “Sailing Home from Rapallo” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3

  St. Andrews Hospital, 1

  St. Clement’s Episcopal Church, 1, 2

  St. Mark’s school, 1, 2

  “Salem” (Lowell), 1

  Salzburg Seminar (1952), 1, 2, 3 Lowell’s success at, 1

  Santayana, George, 1, 2 on Lord Weary’s Castle, 1

  Lowell’s poem on, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Lowell’s view of, 1

  “Santayana’s Farewell to His Nurses,” see “For George Santayana, 1863”

  Santee, Frederick, 1

  “Satan’s Confession” (Lowell), 1

  Saturday Review of Literature, 1

  Schlesinger, Arthur, 1, 2, 3

  Schloss Leopoldskron, Salzburg, 1

  Schwartz, Delmore, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 death of, 1

  at Kenyon College, 1

  Lowell’s poem on, 1, 2

  Lowell’s view of, 1

  Lowells’ visit with, 1

  Scott, Nathan, 1

  “Scream, The” (Lowell), 1

  “Seesaw” (Lowell), 1

  Selected Poems (Lowell), 1

  77 Dream Songs (Berryman), 1 Lowell on, 1

  “Severed Head, The” (Lowell), 1

  Sewanee Review, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8

  Sexton, Anne, 1

  Shakespeare, William, 1, 2

  Shapiro, Karl, 1, 2, 3

  Shaw, Robert Gould, 1

  Sheed and Ward, 1, 2, 3

  Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1

  Shexnayder, Father, 1

  Shostakovich, Dmitri, 1

  Sidney, Sir Philip, 1

  Silberman, Charles E., 1

  Silvers, Robert, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Blackwood and, 1

  Lowell’s breakdowns and, 1

  on Lowell’s meeting with Illich, 1

  Simpson, Louis, 1, 2, 3

  “Skunk Hour” (Lowell), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 “Armadillo” as model for, 1

  imagery in, 1

  Lowell’s new style in, 1

  Smedley, Agnes, 1 in Soviet spy ring affair, 1

  Snodgrass, W. D., 1, 2 poetic style of, 1, 2

  Snooty Baronet (Lewis), 1

  Snow, C. P., 1

  “Soft Wood” (Lowell), 1

  Soho Weekly News, 1

  “Song of the Boston Nativity” (Lowell), 1

  Sontag, Susan, 1

  Southern Fugitive group, 1, 2

  Southern Review, 1

  Spectator, 1

  Spender, Stephen, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 on Lowell’s Oxford nomination, 1

  Spirit of Medieval Philosophical Experience (Gilson), 1

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sp; Spock, Benjamin, 1

  Squires, Radcliffe, 1

  Stafford, Jean, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 autobiographical writings of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  background of, 1

  Catholicism as viewed by, 1, 2

  Charlotte Lowell’s correspondence with, 1

  Damariscotta Mills house of, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  illnesses of, 1, 2, 3

  literary success of, 1

  Lowell’s attack on, 1

  in Lowell’s car accident, 1

  Lowell’s Catholicism as viewed by, 1

  Lowell’s correspondence with, 1

  Lowell’s divorce from, 1

  Lowell’s engagement to, 1, 2

  during Lowell’s jail term, 1

  Lowell’s marriage to, 1

  Lowell’s remarriage to, 1

  Lowell’s separation from, 1, 2, 3

  as model for Mills of the Kavanaughs, 1

  parent fixations as seen by, 1

  post-conversion marital relations of, 1

  psycho-alcoholic cure” taken by, 1, 2

  second marriage of, 1

  on Yaddo, 1

  Stalin, Joseph, 1

  Stark, John (great-grandfather), 1, 2

  Starkie, Enid, 1

  Starr, Milton, 1, 2

  Steiner, George, 1

 

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