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Robert Lowell (1917-1977) was the renowned and pathbreaking author of many leading works in American poetry, including Life Studies (FSG, 1959), For the Union Dead (FSG, 1964), and Day by Day (FSG, 1977).

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Selected Poems

FARRAR, STRAUS AND GIROUX

Contents

Foreword by Frank Bidart............................................xiiiFROM Lord Weary's Castle (1946)The Exile's Return..................................................3The Holy Innocents..................................................4Colloquy in Black Rock..............................................5The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket...................................6In Memory of Arthur Winslow (Death from Cancer).....................11Mary Winslow........................................................12The Drunken Fisherman...............................................13Between the Porch and the Altar.....................................15The Ghost...........................................................19In the Cage.........................................................22At the Indian Killer's Grave........................................23Mr. Edwards and the Spider..........................................26After the Surprising Conversions....................................28The Death of the Sheriff (Noli Me Tangere)..........................30Where the Rainbow Ends..............................................31FROM The Mills of the Kavanaughs (1951)The Mills of the Kavanaughs.........................................35Falling Asleep over the Aeneid......................................38Her Dead Brother....................................................41Mother Marie Therese................................................42The Fat Man in the Mirror...........................................46Thanksgiving's Over.................................................47Life Studies (1959)PART ONEBeyond the Alps.....................................................53The Banker's Daughter...............................................55Inauguration Day: January 1953......................................57A Mad Negro Soldier Confined at Munich..............................58PART TWO91 Revere Street....................................................61PART THREEFord Madox Ford.....................................................95For George Santayana................................................97To Delmore Schwartz.................................................99Words for Hart Crane................................................101PART FOUR: LIFE STUDIESIMy Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow.......................105Dunbarton...........................................................110Grandparents........................................................112Commander Lowell....................................................114Terminal Days at Beverly Farms......................................117Father's Bedroom....................................................119For Sale............................................................120Sailing Home from Rapallo...........................................121During Fever........................................................123Waking in the Blue..................................................125Home After Three Months Away........................................127IIMemories of West Street and Lepke...................................129Man and Wife........................................................131"To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage"...............................132Skunk Hour..........................................................133FROM For the Union Dead (1964)Water...............................................................137The Old Flame.......................................................139Middle Age..........................................................141The Mouth of the Hudson.............................................142Fall 1961...........................................................143Florence............................................................144Eye and Tooth.......................................................146Alfred Corning Clark................................................148Child's Song........................................................150The Public Garden...................................................151Going to and fro....................................................152Myopia: a Night.....................................................154The Drinker.........................................................156Hawthorne...........................................................158Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts...........................160Tenth Muse..........................................................164The Neo-Classical Urn...............................................165Caligula............................................................167July in Washington..................................................169Buenos Aires........................................................170Soft Wood...........................................................172New York 1962: Fragment.............................................174The Flaw............................................................175Night Sweat.........................................................177For the Union Dead..................................................178FROM Near the Ocean (1967)Near the Ocean......................................................1831. Waking Early Sunday Morning......................................1832. Fourth of July in Maine..........................................1873. The Opposite House...............................................1914. Central Park.....................................................1925. Near the Ocean...................................................194FROM History (1973)History.............................................................199Man and Woman.......................................................199Alexander...........................................................200Death of Alexander..................................................200Hannibal 1. Roman Disaster at the Trebia............................201Marcus Cato 234-149 B.C.............................................201Marcus Cato 95-46 B.C...............................................202Cicero, the Sacrificial Killing.....................................202Nunc est bibendum, Cleopatra's Death................................203Juvenal's Prayer....................................................203Attila, Hitler......................................................204Mohammed............................................................204Death of Count Roland...............................................205Joinville and Louis IX..............................................205Dante 3. Buonconte..................................................206Dames du Temps Jadis................................................206Coleridge and Richard II............................................207Bosworth Field......................................................207Sir Thomas More.....................................................208Anne Boleyn.........................................................208Death of Anne Boleyn................................................209Charles V by Titian.................................................209Marlowe.............................................................210Mary Stuart.........................................................210Rembrandt...........................................................211The Worst Sinner, Jonathan Edwards' God.............................211Watchmaker...