"Note: In another order, in other versions, all the poems in this book appeared in my last published poem, Notebook" [from page [7]. Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV (1917-1977) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, into a family that was truly American aristocracy and one that informed much of his writing. Having been educated at St. Mark's School, Harvard, Kenyon, and Louisiana State, and having met a number of prominent poets, he, himself, became a prolific writer, translator and renowned poet, serving as the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, winning the National Book Award, two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award. For Lizzie and Harriet characterizes the 'restless and emotionally harrowing' [according to The New York Times in 2007] relationship between Lowell, his second wife, the writer Elizabeth Hardwick, and their daughter Harriet. 48 p.: Black and white illustrated title page by Francis Parker; 21.5 cm. (8.5 inches). Green cloth, with gilt-stamped spine title. Color illustrated dust jacket designed by Dorris J. Huth, the light green illustration mirroring that of Francis Parker on the title page. Dark green endpapers.
Second Printing
In all, there are 74 poems, with the Sections entitled: "Summer"; "Through the Night"; "The Charles River"; "Harvard"; "Sleep"; "New York"; "Mexico"' "Eight Months Later"; "Circles"; "Late Summer"; and "Obit".
ISBN: 0374157294
Book is in Near Fine Condition: pages bright, clean, tight, and unmarked; very slightly cocked.
Dust Jacket is in Very Good Condition: small, closed tear top edge of the front section; spine slightly sunned.
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