Robert Lowell: A Biography (78 page)

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acknowledgment
is
made
to
the
following
libraries
for
permission
to
use
material
in
their
collections:
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Special
acknowledgment
is
made
to
the
following
for
permission
to
use
previously
unpublished
material:

William Alfred; the estate of W. H. Auden, copyright © 1982 by the estate of W. H. Auden, not to be reprinted without written permission; Frank Bidart, literary executor for Robert Lowell; Lawrence E. Brinn and Louise Crane, executors for the estate of Marianne Moore; Blair Clark; Donald Davie; Kate Donahue, literary executor for John Berryman; Richard Eberhart; Alfred C. Edwards, trustee for the estate of Robert Frost; Mrs. T. S. Eliot; Robert Fitzgerald; Robert Giroux; Elizabeth Hardwick; Mary von S. Jarrell; Stanley Kunitz; Dwight Macdonald, literary executor for Delmore Schwartz; William Meredith; Anne Leslie Moore; Curtis Prout; Adrienne Rich; Russell & Volkening, Inc., agent for the estate of Jean Stafford; Helen H. Tate; Peter Taylor; John Thompson; and Liberty Winter.

Grateful
acknowledgment
is
made
to
the
following
for
permission
to
reprint
previously
published
material:

American
Poetry
Review:
Excerpt from “Caryatid: A Column” by Adrienne Rich, published in
American
Poetry
Review
,
Sept.–Oct. 1973. Copyright © 1973 by Adrienne Rich.

Atheneum Publishers: Excerpt from
Language
and
Silence:
Essays
on
Language
,
Literature
and
the
Inbuman
by George Steiner. Copyright © 1967 by George Steiner. Reprinted with the permission of Atheneum Publishers.

Commentary:
Excerpt from a letter by Robert Lowell reprinted from
Commentary
,
April 1969, by permission of
Commentary
and Robert Lowell’s literary executor.

Commonweal:
Excerpt from a book review by Anne Fremantle,
Commonweal
,
vol. 45.
Copyright
© Commonweal Publishing Co., Inc.

Doubleday & Company, Inc. and Faber & Faber, Ltd.: Excerpt from “Four for Sir John Davis,” from
The
Collected
Poems
of
Theodore
Roethke.
Copyright 1952 by The Atlantic Monthly Company. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Company, Inc. and Faber & Faber, Ltd.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.: From
His
Toy
,
His
Dream
,
His
Rest
by John Berryman, copyright © 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 by John Berryman. From
The
Complete
Poems
by Elizabeth Bishop, copyright © 1969 by Elizabeth Bishop. From
Day
by
Day
by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1975, 1976,
1977 by Robert Lowell. From
Imitations
by Robert Lowell,
copyright © 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961 by Robert Lowell. From
The
Dolphin
by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1973 by Robert Lowell. From
For
the
Union
Dead
by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1965, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964 by Robert Lowell. From
Near
the
Ocean
by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967 by Robert Lowell. From
The
Old
Glory
by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1964, 1965, 1968 by Robert Lowell. From
For
Lizzie
and
Harriet
by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1967, 1968, 1970, 1973 by Robert Lowell. From
Notebook
1967
–
68
by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1967, 1968, 1969 by Robert Lowell. From
Notebook
by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 by Robert Lowell. From
Life
Studies
by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1956, 1959 by Robert Lowell. From
Land
of
Unlikeness
by Robert Lowell, copyright 1943 by Robert Lowell; renewed 1972. From
A
View
of
My
Own
by Elizabeth Hardwick, copyright © 1960, 1962 by Elizabeth Hardwick. From
The
Collected
Stories
of
Jean
Stafford
,
copyright © 1946, 1973 by Jean Stafford. From
The
Collected
Stories
of
Peter
Taylor
, copyright © 1969 by Peter Taylor. From
King
of
the
Cats:
Literary
Portraits
by F.W. Dupee. Copyright © 1959, 1964 by F. W. Dupee.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.: “Rebellion,” “The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket—VII,” and excerpts from “In the Cage,” “The Death of the Sheriff,” and “At a Bible House,” reprinted from
Lord
Weary
’
s
Castle
,
by Robert Lowell, by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.; copyright 1946, 1974 by Robert Lowell. Excerpts from “Thanksgiving’s Over,” “The Mills of the Kavanaughs,” and “Her Dead Brother,” copyright 1950, 1951, 1947, 1975 by Robert Lowell; renewed 1978, 1979 by Harriet M. Lowell. Reprinted from
The
Mills
of
the
Kavanaughs
,
by Robert Lowell, by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. Excerpt from
American
Journey:
The
Times
of
Robert
Kennedy
,
edited by Jean Stein and George Plimpton, reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. and
International
Creative Management.

The
Hudson
Review:
Specified excerpts from Joseph Bennett’s “Two Americans, a Brahmin, and the Bourgeoisie.” Reprinted by permission from
The
Hudson
Review
,
Vol. 12, No. 3 (Autumn 1959). Copyright © 1959 by The Hudson Review, Inc. Excerpt from “A Meaning of Robert Lowell” by Hayden Carruth. First published in
The
Hudson
Review
,
Vol. XX, No. 3 (Autumn 1967). Reprinted by permission of the author.

The
Kenyon
Review:
Excerpts from “Notes on Eleven Poets” by R. P. Blackmur; “Two Poets” by John Thompson; “Two Translations” by George Steiner and “A Note on Gerard Manley Hopkins,” by Robert Lowell. First published by
The
Kenyon
Review
1945, 1959, 1961, and 1944.

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.: Excerpts from
The
Tragedy
of
Lyndon
Johnson
by Eric F. Goldman. Copyright © 1968, 1969 by Eric F. Goldman.

New American Library: Excerpt from
Armies
of
the
Night
by Norman Mailer. Copyright 1968 by Norman Mailer; reprinted by arrangement with New American Library, Inc., New York, N.Y.

The
New
York
Review
of
Books:
Excerpt from “The Poetry of John Berryman” and “John Berryman” by Robert Lowell. Copyright © 1964, 1972 Nyrev, Inc. Reprinted with permission from
The
New
York
Review
of
Books.

The
New
York
Times:
From an article on the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace, March 27, 1949. From “Tokyo War Secrets Stolen by Soviet Spy Ring in 1941.” From “Poet and Politician Orchestrate McCarthy Overtures to Voters” by E. W. Kenworthy. Letter of Robert Lowell to President Johnson, June 3, 1965. From “Talk with Robert Lowell” by Stanley Kunitz. From “Boston Jeremiads” by Selden Rodman. From “The Poetry of Autobiography” by Helen Vendler. Copyright © 1946, 1949, 1964, 1965, 1968, 1977 by The New York Times Company. Reprinted by permission.

The
New
Yorker:
Excerpts from “An Influx of Poets” by Jean Stafford.” Originally published in
The
New
Yorker.
Copyright © 1978 by Jean Stafford Liebling.

Nistri-Lischi Editori: Excerpt from “Remembering Cal” by Esther Brooks in
Robert
Lowell:
A
Tribute
,
edited by Rolando Anzilotti, 1979. Reprinted by permission of Nistri-Lischi Editori (Pisa) and the Institute of English and American Literature of the University of Pisa.

The
Observer:
Excerpt from an interview with Robert Lowell by John Gale, 1967. Reprinted by permission of The Observer Ltd.

Penguin Books Ltd.: Excerpt from “Il sabato del villaggio” (Saturday in the Village) by Giacomo Leopardi from
The
Penguin
Book
of
Italian
Verse
,
trans. George Kay, 1958 ed., p. 287. Copyright © 1958, 1965 by George Kay. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.

Poetry:
Excerpt from “Half Legible Bronze,” by Stephen Yenser. Copyright © 1974 by The Modern Poetry Association.

Russell & Volkening, Inc.: Excerpt from “The Home Front” by Jean Stafford from
Children
Are
Bored
on
Sunday.
Copyright © 1945 by Jean Stafford. Reprinted by permission of Russell & Volkening, Inc.

Sewanee
Review:
Excerpts from “Current Poetry” by Robert Lowell; first published in the
Sewanee
Review
54, 1 (Winter 1946). Copyright 1946 by the University of the South. Excerpts from “Visiting the Tates” by Robert Lowell; first published,
Sewanee
Review
67,
4 (Autumn 1959). Copyright 1959 by the University of the South. Reprinted by permission of the editor.

Time Inc.: Excerpt from “Off Broadway” November 27, 1964. Copyright 1964 Time Inc. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission from Time.

Triquarterly:
Excerpt from “Extracts from a Journal” by Richard Stern, published in
Triquar
terly
,
Winter 1981. Copyright © 1981 by Richard Stern. Permission granted by Wallace & Sheil Agency, Inc. as agents for Richard Stern.

Viking Penguin, Inc.: Excerpt from an interview with Robert Lowell by Frederick Seidel from
Writers
at
Work:
The
Paris
Review
Interviews
,
Second Series, edited by George
Plimpton
. Copyright © 1963 by The Paris Review, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin Inc.

University of Washington Press: Excerpts from
Selected
Letters
of
Theodore
Roethke
,
Ralph J. Mills, Jr., ed.

Previously unpublished letter by William Carlos Williams, Copyright © 1982 by William E. Williams and Paul H. Williams. Used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp., agent.