THE LETTERS OF ROBERT LOWELL

edited by Saskia Hamilton

ISBN 10: 0374530343 / ISBN 13: 9780374530341

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2005

About this Item

6 x 9 in. Paper wraps. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers very clean with minor wear. Binding tight, text unmarked. Edges of text block a touch smudged. Lett. Stax. First printing of first paperback edition.

Seller Inventory # 41624

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE LETTERS OF ROBERT LOWELL
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374530343
• ISBN 13: 9780374530341
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good +
• Seller catalogs:
  • Letters

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Synopsis

One of the most influential poets of the twentieth century, Robert Lowell was also a prolific letter writer who corresponded with many of the remarkable writers and thinkers of his day, including Elizabeth Bishop, Ezra Pound, Hannah Arendt, William Carlos Williams, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, and Edmund Wilson. These letters, conversations in writing, document the evolution of Lowell's work and illuminate another side of the intimate life that was the subject of so many of his poems: his deep friendships with other writers; the manic-depressive illness he struggled to endure and understand; his marriages to three prose writers; and his engagement with politics and the antiwar movement of the 1960s. The Letters of Robert Lowell shows us, in many cases for the first time, the private thoughts and passions of a figure unrivaled in his influence on American letters.

About the Authors

Robert Lowell (1917–1977) was the renowned and pathbreaking author of many leading works in American poetry, including Life Studies (FSG, 1959), For the Union Dead (FSG, 1964), and Day by Day (FSG, 1977).

Saskia Hamilton was the author of several books of poetry, including Corridor, named one of the best poetry books of 2014 by The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review. She is the editor of The Letters of Robert Lowell and coeditor of Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell.