Notebook 1967-68.

Author/creator Lowell, Robert
Other author Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977 inscriber.
Other author Warren, Robert Penn, 1905-1989 former owner.
Other author Clark, Eleanor, 1913-1996 former owner.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1969]
Description161 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents Harriet -- Long summer -- For Mary McCarthy -- Searchings -- Dream of the fair women -- Five dreams: The old order ; Agamemnon : a dream ; The house in Argos ; The next dream ; Onion skin -- Through the night -- The muse: Nantucket : 1935 ; The muses of George Grosz -- Randall Jarrell : 1914-1965 -- Munich, 1938 -- October and November: Che Guevara ; Caracas ; The march ; The march ; Charles Russell Lowell : 1835-1864 ; Caracas -- Autum in the abstract: Alba ; In sickness ; Deutschland ; End of the saga -- Symbols: The well ; Hell ; Rats ; In the cage ; The river god ; The leak -- For Aunt Sarah -- The heavenly rain -- Charles River -- My grandfather -- Names: Sir Thomas More ; Marcus Cato the Younger ; Joinville and Louis IX ; Alexander ; Napoleon ; Waterloo -- Harvard -- Alcohol -- In the forties -- The literary life, a scrapbook -- Sleep -- Blizzard in Cambridge -- Christmas and New Year: Snake ; Christmas tree ; The dialogue ; Playing ball with the critic ; George H. and George E. Lewes ; The book of wisdom ; Descendant ; Bird -- Mexico -- Canterbury -- Killicrankie -- Midwinter: Friend across Central Park ; Another friend ; Judith ; The goldfish ; Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in New York ; Across the yard : La ignota -- School: For Peter Taylor ; Randall Jarrell -- Lines from Israel -- Writers: T.S. Eliot ; Erza Pound ; Ford Madox Ford ; To Allen Tate I ; To Allen Tate II ; William Carlos Williams ; Robert Frost -- Those older -- Ice on the Hudson -- My death -- February and March: Cows ; The golden middle ; Vigil ; Le cygne ; Thirst ; Helltime ; Utopia for racoons ; Fame ; Growing in favor ; Last summer ; Cranach's man-hunt ; First spring ; Rembrandt -- Pastime -- April 8, 1968: Two walls ; Words of a young girl ; The petit bourgeois -- Mania: 1958 ; 1968 -- April: Roulette ; Europa ; Redskin ; Dalliance ; The dialogue ; The misanthrope and the painter ; Even such ; The white goddess ; Sappho ; Antony ; A moment ; Wind -- Power: Allah ; Attila ; Clytemnestra : The death of Count Roland ; Tamerlane old ; Boisworth Field ; Charles V by Titian ; The army of the Duc de Nemours ; Bishop Berkley ; Old Hickory ; Sunrise ; F.O. Matthiessen : 1902-1950 ; New Year's Eve 1968 -- April's end: King David Senex ; Night-sweat ; Caligula ; To Werner von Usslingen ; Nostalgie de la boue -- Eloges to the spirits: Revenants ; Verdun ; Hydrotherapy ; Words for a guinea-pig -- For Norman Mailer -- May: The pacification of Columbia ; Violence ; Leader of the Left ; The restoration ; De Gaulle ; The ark ; The New York intellectual ; The dissenting academy ; The doctor ; Another doctor ; New York ; Sounds in the night ; Civlization ; The diamond cutters ; The picture ; Lunch date ; Memorial Day -- Robert Kennedy : 1925-1968: R.F.K ; Another circle ; Another June -- To summer: The Worst sinner ; God of our fathers ; Whites ; Heaven ; The house-party ; For Theodore Roethke : 1908-1963 ; For Eugene McCarthy ; The immortals ; For Harpo Marx ; Milton in separation ; Stalin -- Eight months later: Eight months later ; Die Gold-orangen -- We do what we are: The nihilist as hero ; Grave guild ; Reading myself -- Circles: Homing ; The hard way ; Das Ewig Weibliche ; Sound mind, sound body ; Penolope ; Struggle of non-existence ; The Spock etc. sentences ; The good life ; Night worms ; The Vogue, the vague ; High blood ; The Lost tune ; Heat -- The races: August ; Five-hour rally ; The flaw ; Fear in Chicago ; "We are here to preserve disorder" ; After the convention ; The hospital ; Forethought ; November 6 ; November 7 : from the painter's loft -- Summer: These winds ; La condition humaine ; End of Camp Alamoosook ; Familiar quotations ; Mink ; Cattle ; The going generation ; Castine Harbor ; Joy ; Nature ; Growth ; The graduate ; Outlivers ; My heavenly shiner ; It did ; Seals -- Father and sons: For Michael Tate ; Letter from Allen Tate -- Dies irae, a hope -- For John Berryman -- Close the book -- Half a century gone -- Obit -- Afterthought -- Dates.
Abstract "'As my title intends,' Mr. Lowell writes, 'the poems in this book are written as one poem, jagged in pattern, but not a conglomeration or sequence of related material. It is not my diary, my confession, not a puritan's too literal pornographic honesty, glad to share private embarrassment, and triumph. The time is a summer, an autumn, a winter, a spring, another summer; here the poem ends, except for turned-back bits of fall and winter 1968...My plot rolls with the seasons. The separate poems and sections are opportunist and inspired by impulse. Accident threw up subjects, and the plot swallowed them -- famished for human chances.
Local noteInscribed on t.p. "For Red [Robert Penn Warren] and Eleanor [Clark] with affection from Cal [Robert Lowell." Includes dust jacket and case. Laid in: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. review copy slip (19 May 1969) Edited printed form. Stuart Wright Book Collection #58.31. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection in Joyner Library Special Collections.
General notePoems.
Other formsAlso issued online.
Acquisitions source Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2010
Issued in other formOnline version: Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977. Notebook 1967-68. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux [1969]
LCCN 69013736

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