Robert Lowell

Bibliography

 

Primary Works

• Land of Unlikeness.Cummington, MA: Cummington Press, 1944.

 

• Lord Weary's Castle.New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1946.

 

• The Mills of the Kavanaughs.New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1951.

 

• Life Studies.New York, Farrar: Straus and Cudahy, 1959.

 

• Lord Weary's Castle and The Mills of the Kavanaughs.New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1961.

 

• Imitations.New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961.

 

• For the Union Dead.New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964.

 

• Life Studies and For the Union Dead.New York: the Noonday Press, 1964.

 

• For the Union Dead.London: Faber and Faber, 1985.

 

• Near the Ocean.New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967.

 

• Notebook.New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. [Revised and expanded edition, 1970]

 

• For Lizzie and Harriet.New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.

 

• History.New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.

 

• The Dolphin.New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973.

 

• Day by Day.New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975.

 

• Selected Poems.New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976.

 

• The Old Glory.New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965.

 

• Prometheus Bound.New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969.

 

• Phaedra.New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1961. [Version by Robert Lowell and Jacques Barzun]

 

• The Voyage and other versions of poems by Baudelaire.New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1968.

 

• Selected Prose.Ed. Giroux, R. London: Faber and Faber, 1987.

 

• Letters.Ed. Saskia Hamilton. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005

 

Essays and papers that Robert Giroux does not mention in his edition:

• "Moulding the Golden Spoon."Hika, (6), 1940: 5.

 

• "A Note."Kenyon Review, (6), 1944: 583-86.

 

• "The Verses of Thomas Merton."Commonweal, (42), 1945: 240-42.

 

• "Current Poetry."Sewanee Review (54), 1946: 340-41.

 

• "Imagination and Reality."Nation, (164), 1947: 400-2.

 

• "Thomas, Bishop and Williams."Sewanee Review, (55), 1947: 493-503.

 

• "John Ransom's Conversation."Sewanee Review, (56), 1948: 374-77.

 

• "Liberalism and Activism."Commentary, (47), 1969: 19-20.

 

• "On Rythms from America."Agenda, (32), 1973: 51-2.

 

• "The Muses Won't Help Twice."Kenyon Review, (17), 1955: 317.

 

• "After Enjoying Six or Seven Essays on Me."Salmagundi, (37), 1977: 112-15.

 

• "Prose Genius in Verse."Kenyon Review, (15), 1953: 619-25.

 

• "Yvor Winters: A Tribute."Poetry, (98), 1961: 40-42.

 

• "Digressions from Larkin's 20th Century Verse."Encounter, (5), 1973: 66-68.

 

• "What's Happening to America."Partisan Review, (34), 1967: 38.

 

• "I. A. Richards as Poet."Encounter, (14), 1960: 77-78.

 

• "The True Light."The Vindex, (59), 1935: 129-130.

 

• "Dante's Inferno."The Vindex, (59), 1935: 130-131.

 

• "Summer Tides."The New Review, (43), 1977: 3.

 

• "Three Poems for Kaddish."Ploughshares, (2), 1979: 72-73.

 

• Robert Lowell, A Reading. LP disk.Caedmon TC 1569, 1978.

 

Biographies and Memories.

• Hamilton, I. (1983). Robert Lowell: A Biography.London, Faber and Faber.

 

• Hamilton, S. (2005). The Letters of Robert Lowell.New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

 

• Mariani, P. (1994). Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell.New York, Norton and Company.

 

• Meyers, J., ed. (1988). Robert Lowell: Interviews and Memoirs.Michigan, University of Michigan Press.

 

• Simpson, E. (1982). Poets in Their Youth: A Memoir.London, Faber and Faber.

 

Criticism.

• Alvarez, A. (1965). "A Talk with Robert Lowell." Encounter, (24): 39-43.

 

• Axelrod, S. G. (1978). Robert Lowell. Princeton, Princeton University Press.

 

• Axelrod, S. G., and H. Deese, eds. (1988). Robert Lowell: Essays on the Poetry. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

 

• Axelrod, S. G., and H. Deese, eds. (1982). Robert Lowell: A Reference Guide. Boston, Hall.

 

• Baechler, L. (1993). "Berryman, Roethke and the Elegy." Jay Parini, ed. The Columbia History of American Poetry. New York, Columbia U. P.

 

• Bawer, B. (1986). The Middle Generation: The Lives and Poetry of Delmore Schwartz, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, Robert Lowell. Hamden, Archon .

 

• Bell, Vereen M. (1983). Nihilist as Hero. Cambridge, Massachusetts and London, Harvard University Press.

 

• Berryman, J. (1972). The Freedom of the Poet. New York, Farrar Strauss & Giroux, Bly, R. (1966). "Robert Lowell's For the Union Dead." Sixties, (8): 93-6.

 

• Braybrooke, N. (1964). "Robert Lowell and the Unjust Steward." Dalhousie Review, (44): 28-34.

 

• Carruth, H. (1962). "Toward, Not Away From: Imitations by Robert Lowell." Poetry, (101): 43-47.

 

• Chambers, B. (1976). Robert Lowell .London, Milton Keynes.

 

• Cooper, P. (1970). The Autobiographical Myth of Robert Lowell. Chapel Hill, New York.

 

• Cosgrave, P. (1970). The Public Poetry of Robert Lowell. London, Gollancz.

 

• Doreski, William. (1999). Robert Lowell's Shifting Colors: The Poetics of the Public and the Personal. Ohio, Ohio University Press.

 

• Dyck, R. (1982). 'Lowell's 'The Drinker'.' Explicator. Washington DC, 7-9.

 

• Ehrenpreis, I. (1970). "The Age of Lowell." Robert Lowell: A Portrait of the Artist in His Time, pp. 155-86. Ed. Michael London and Robert B. New York, David Lewis.

 

• Ellmann, R., and O'Clair, R., eds. (1988). The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. New York and London, W.W. Norton and Company, Inc.

 

• Fein, R. J. (1979). Robert Lowell. Boston, Twayne Publishers.

 

• Gilbert,-Sandra-M. (1977). "'My Name Is Darkness': The Poetry of Self-Definition." Contemporary-Literature, (18): 443-57.

 

• Giroux, R., ed. (1987). Robert Lowell: Collected Prose. London, Faber and Faber.

 

• Hamilton, I. (1982). 'Robert Lowell: Life Studies.' The New York Review of Books. Florida, 45-53.

 

• Hart, H. (1995). Robert Lowell and the Sublime. Syracuse, New York, Syracuse University Press.

 

• Heaney, S. (1989). The Government of the Tongue. London, Faber and Faber.

 

• Heaney, S. (1979). Field Work. London, Faber and Faber.

 

• Hobsbaum, P. (1988). A Reader's Guide to Robert Lowell. London, Thames and Hudson Ltd.

 

• Hoffman,-Steven-K. (1979). "Lowell, Berryman, Roethke, and Ginsberg: The Communal Function of Confessional Poetry." An-International-Journal-of-Contemporary-Writing, (22): 329-41.

 

• Iriving, D. C. (1991). "Poets on the Edge." Dyonisos, (3): 36-41.

 

• Kalstone, D. (1991). Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Lowell. New York, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Noonday Press.

 

• London and Boyers, eds. (1970). Robert Lowell: A Portrait of the Artist in his Time. New York.

 

• Martz, W. J. ed. (1966). The Achievement of Robert Lowell: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems with a Critical Introduction. New York, Scott Foresman.

 

• Mazzaro, J. (1965). The Poetic Themes of Robert Lowell. Michigan, The University of Michigan Press.

 

• Mazzaro, J. Ed. (1971). Profile of Robert Lowell. Columbus, Ohio.

 

• Mazzaro, J. (2000). Robert Lowell and Ovid. New York, Exlibris Corporation.

 

• McClatchy, J.D. Jr. (1977). "Robert Lowell: Learning to Live with History." The American Poetry Review, 34-38.

 

• Meiners, R. K. (1970). Everything to Be Endured. Columbia, University of Missouri Press.

 

• Meyers, J. (1987). Manic Power: Robert Lowell and His Circle. London, MacMillan.

 

• Molesworth,-Charles. (1976). " 'With Your Own Face On': The Origins and Consequences of Confessional Poetry." Twentieth-Century-Literature:-A-Scholarly-and-Critical-Journal, (22): 163-78.

 

• Moreno, Luis Javier. (2003). Día a día. Madrid, Editorial Losada.

 

• Naipaul, V. S. (1969). "Et in America Ego. Interview with Robert Lowell." The Listener, (82): 302-4.

 

• North, M. (1980). "The Public Monument and Public Poetry: Stevens, Berryman, and Lowell." Contemporary Literature,(21): 267-85.

 

• Olney, J. (1972). Metaphors of Self: The Meaning of Autobiography. Princeton, Princeton University Press.

 

• Perloff, M. (1973). The Poetic Art of Robert Lowell. Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press.

 

• Phillips, R. (1973). The Confessional Poets. Carbondale and Edwardsville, Southern Illinois Press.

 

• Price, J., ed. (1972). Critics on Robert Lowell. Miami, Florida.

 

• Procopiow, N. (1984). Robert Lowell: The Poet and His Critics. Chicago, American Library Assn.

 

• Procopiow, N. (1983). "Day by Day: Lowell's Poetics of Imitation." Ariel. 4-14.

 

• Ramazani, J. (1994). Poetry of Mourning. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

 

• Rodríguez M, A. (1997). La poética del nombre en el registro de la autobiografía. Barcelona, Anthropos.

 

• Rodríguez M, A. (1990). Por los muertos de la Unión y otros poemas. Madrid, Cátedra.

 

• Rosenthal, M. L. (1973). The New Poets. London, Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press.

 

• Rosenthal, M. L. and Sally M. Gall. (1983). The Modern Poetic Sequence: The Genius of Modern Poetry. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

 

• Rudman, M. (1983). Robert Lowell: An Introduction to the Poetry. New York, Columbia University Press.

 

• Samson, I. (1998). "I Was There, I saw It", London Review of Books, 8-9.

 

• Simpson, L. (1979). A Revolution in Taste. New York, Macmillan.

 

• Smith, Vivian B. (1974). The poetry of Robert Lowell. Sydney, Sydney UP.

 

• Staples, H. B. (1962). Robert Lowell: The First Twenty Years. London, Faber and Faber.

 

• Thurley, G. (1977). The American Moment: American Poetry in the Mid-Century. London, Edward Arnold Publishers.

 

• Vendler, H. (1995). The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Definition. Cambridge, Harvard U.P.

 

• Walcott, D. (1984). "On Robert Lowell." The New York Review of Books, (1): 25-31.

 

• Wallingford, K. (1988). Robert Lowell's Language of the Self. Chapel Hill, University of Carolina Press.

 

• Williamson, A. (1986). Pity the Monsters: The Political Vision of Robert Lowell. Connecticut, Greenwood Press.

 

• Yenser, S. (1975). Circle to Circle: The Poetry of Robert Lowell. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press.