Robert Lowell

Selected Poems

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Produktbeschreibung

Selected Poems includes over 200 works culled from Robert Lowell's books of verse-Lord Weary's Castle, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, Life Studies, For the Union Dead, Near the Ocean, History, For Lizzie and Harriet, and The Dolphin. Edited and with a foreword by the poet Frank Bidart, who also edited Collected Poems of Robert Lowell, this volume is a perfectly chosen representation of "the greatest American poet of the mid-century" (Richard Poirier, Book Week).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 710g
• ISBN-13: 9780374530068
• ISBN-10: 0374530068
• Artikelnr.: 21086708

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Robert Lowell

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Frank Bidart
From Lord Weary's Castle (1946)
The Exile's Return
The Holy Innocents
Colloquy in Black Rock
The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
In Memory of Arthur Winslow (Death from Cancer)
Mary Winslow
The Drunken Fisherman
Between the Porch and the Altar
The Ghost
In the Cage
At the Indian Killer's Grave
Mr. Edwards and the Spider
After the Surprising Conversions
The Death of the Sheriff (Noli Me Tangere)
Where the Rainbow Ends
From The Mills of the Kavanaughs (1951)
The Mills of the Kavanaughs
Falling Asleep over the Aeneid
Her Dead Brother 41
Mother Marie Therese
The Fat Man in the Mirror
Thanksgiving's Over
Life Studies (1959)
Part One
Beyond the Alps
The Banker's Daughter
Inauguration Day: January 1953
Mad Negro Soldier Confined at Munich
Part Two
91 Revere Street
Part Three
Ford Madox Ford
For George Santayana
To Delmore Schwartz
Words for Hart
Part Four: LIFE STUDIES
I.
My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow
Dunbarton
Grandparents
Commander Lowell
Terminal Days at Beverly Farms
Father's Bedroom
For Sale
Sailing Home from Rapallo
During Fever
Waking in the Blue
Home After Three Months Away
II.
Memories of West Street and Lepke
Man and Wife
"To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage"
Skunk Hour
From For the Union Dead (1964)
Water
The Old Flame
Middle Age
The Mouth of the Hudson
Fall 1961
Florence
Eye and Tooth
Alfred Corning Clark
Child's Song
The Public Garden
Going to and fro
Myopia: a Night
The Drinker
Hawthorne
Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts
Tenth Muse
The Neo-Classical Urn
Caligula
July in Washington
Buenos Aires
Soft Wood
New York 1962: Fragment
The Flaw
Night Sweat
For the Union Dead
From Near the Ocean (1967)
Near the Ocean
1. Waking Early Sunday Morning
2. Fourth of July in Maine
3. The Opposite House
4. Central Park
5. Near the Ocean
From History (1973)
History
Man and Woman
Alexander
Death of Alexander
Hannibal I. Roman Disaster at the Trebia
Marcus Cato 234-149 B.C.
Marcus Cato 95-46 B.C.
Cicero, the Sacrificial Killing
Nunc est bibendum, Cleopatra's Death
Juvenal's Prayer
Attila, Hitler
Mohammed
Death of Count Roland
Joinville and Louis IX
Dante 3. Buonconte
Dames du Temps Jadis
Coleridge and Richard II
Bosworth Field
Sir Thomas More
Anne Boleyn
Death of Anne Boleyn
Charles V by Titian
Marlowe
Mary Smart
Rembrandt
The Worst Sinner, Jonathan Edwards' God
Watchmaker God
Robespierre and Mozart as Stage
Saint-Just 1767-93
Napoleon
Waterloo
Beethoven
Coleridge
The Lost Tune
Margaret Fuller Drowned
Abraham Lincoln
Verdun
Dream of Fair Ladies
Serpent
Words
Sunrise
Randall Jarrell I. October 1965
Randall Jarrell 2
Randall Jarrell 3
T. S. Eliot
Ezra Pound
William Carlos Williams
Robert Frost
Stalin
Caracas
The March I
The March 2
Worse Times
Ulysses
Fever
Two Walls
For Robert Kennedy 1925-68
For Eugene McCarthy
Publication Day
Lévi-Strauss in London
The Nihilist as Hero
Reading Myself
For Elizabeth Bishop 4
Death and the Bridge
Ice
End of a Year
From For Lizzie and Harriet (1973)
Part One
Harriet, born January 4,1957
Harriet
Elizabeth
These Winds (Harriet)
Harriet
Part Two
Snake
Christmas Tree
Dear Sorrow
Harriet's Dream
Left Out of Vacation
Das Ewig Weibliche
Our Twentieth Wedding Anniversary (Elizabeth)
The Hard Way (Harriet)
Words for Muffin, a Guinea-Pig
End of Camp Alamoosook (Harriet)
Bringing a Turtle Home
Returning Turtle
Growth (Harriet)
The Graduate (Elizabeth)
Long Summer
No Hearing
No Hearing
Outlivers (Harriet and Elizabeth)
My Heavenly Shiner (Elizabeth)
It Did (Elizabeth)
Seals
Obit
From The Dolphin (1973)
Fishnet
Window
The Serpent
Symptoms
Voices
3ld Snapshot from Venice 1952
Fall Weekend at Milgate
Mermaid
In the Mail
Flounder
Exorcism
Plotted
The Couple
Artist's Model
Mermaid Emerging
Angling
Leaf-Lace Dress
Late Summer at Milgate
Robert Sheridan Lowell
Careless Night
Wildrose
Ivana
Lost Fish
Sick
Plane-Ticket
Christmas
Christmas
Dolphin
From Selected Poems (1976)
NINETEEN THIRTIES
First Things
First Love
1930's
Searching
1930's
1930's
1930's
Bobby Delano
1930's
Long Summers
Long Summers
Long Summers
1930's
1930's
Anne Dick 1.1936
Anne Dick 2. 1936
Father
Mother and Father 1
Mother and Father 2
Returning
Mother, 1972
Father in a Dream
Tb Daddy
Will Not Come Back " 284
MEXICO
Mexico (1, 3-10)
Eight Months Later
i. Eight Months Later 292
2. Die Gold-Orangen 292
From Day by Day (1977)
Ulysses and Circe
Our Afterlife 1
For John Berryman
Square of Black
In the Ward
DAY BY DAY
from Part I
The Day
Domesday Book
Marriage
from Part II
Robert T. S. Lowell
For Sheridan
Grass Fires
St. Mark's, 1933
Suburban Surf
from Part III
Ten Minutes
Notice
Shifting Colors
Unwanted
The Downlook
Thanks-Offering for Recovery
Epilogue
From Last Poems (1977)
Summer Tides
Notes
Chronology
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines