Synopses & Reviews
Selected Poems includes over 200 poems, culled from each of 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. This edition, which first appeared in 1977, was revised by the Author - there are additions, deletions, and a change in sequence in the
Dolphin section; the five poems in the title sequence from
Near the Ocean are now uncut; and a new poem is added to the "Nineteen Thirties."
Review
"If more people read poetry, if it were more exportable and translatable, surely [Lowell's] poems would go far towards changing, or at least unsettling, minds made up against us. Somehow or other, by fair means or fowl, and in the middle of our worst century so far, we have produced a magnificent poet."--Elizabeth Bishop
"The poems collected here reveal the grandeur and magnitude of Lowell's accomplishment."--James Atlas, The New Republic
"Selected Poems provides the best possible entry into the imaginative universe of Robert Lowell. Those who have not followed [his] career volume by volume now have a chance to come to terms with one of our major poets."--Marjorie Perloff, The Washington Post Book World
Synopsis
Selected Poems includes over 200 poems, culled from each of 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. This edition, which first appeared in 1977, was revised by the
About the Author
Robert Lowell, one of America's great men of letters, died in 1977.