Robert Lowell: A Biography (74 page)

Idiot,
The
(Dostoevsky),
1
Illich, Ivan,
1
,
2
Imitations
(Lowell),
1
,
2
- critical responses to,
  1
- as poetic vs. literal translation,
  1
- title chosen for,
  1
“Inauguration Day: January 1953” (Lowell),
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
“Influx of Poets, An” (Stafford),
1
- Lowells as models for,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
“In Memory of Arthur Winslow” (Lowell),
1
,
2
“In Praise of Diversity” (McGinley),
1
Institute for Contemporary Arts,
London
,
1
Institute for Living,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
“Interior Castle, The” (Stafford),
1
“In the Cage” (Lowell),
1
,
2
“In the Ward” (Lowell),
1
Iowa, University of,
1
,
2
,
3
Irish Georgian Society,
1
Isherwood, Christopher,
1

James, William,
1
Jarrell, Mary,
1
Jarrell, Randall,
1
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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,
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- on
  Benito
  Cereno,
  1
- Berryman’s elegy for,
  1
- death of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
- difficult personality of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
- on
  Land
  of
  Unlikeness,
  1
- on
  Lord
  Weary’
  s
  Castle
  ,
  1
  ,
  2
- as Lowell’s college roommate,
  1
- Lowell’s correspondence with,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
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  12
- Lowell’s view of,
  1
- in Lowell’s will,
  1
- on meeting Pound,
  1
- on
  Mills
  of
  the
  Kavanaughs,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
- nervous breakdown of,
  1
Jenson, Oliver,
1
John of the Cross, Saint,
1
Johnson, Lady Bird,
1
,
2
,
3
Johnson, Lyndon B.,
1
,
2
,
3
- Lowell’s letter to,
  1
- in Lowell’s manic delusions,
  1
- in Presidential primaries (1968),
  1
  ,
  2
- in Vietnam War,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
- “Waking Early Sunday Morning” and,
  1
  ,
  2
- in White House Festival of the Arts,
  1
- Yale’s NEA grant and,
  1
“Jonah” (Lowell),
1
“Jonathan Edwards in Western
Massachusetts
” (Lowell),
2
Joyce, James,
1
Jung, Carl,
1
,
2
Justice, Department of,
1
,
2
Juvenal, Lowell’s translated version of,
1

Kalstone, David,
1
Kant, Immanuel,
1
Kay, George,
1
,
2
Kazin, Alfred,
1
,
2
Kennedy, Jacqueline,
1
- Lowell’s friendship with,
  1
  ,
  2
- in Robert Kennedy’s Presidential bid (1968),
  1
Kennedy, John F.,
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
- inauguration of,
  1
- at Malraux dinner,
  1
Kennedy, Robert F.:
- assassination of,
  1
- personality of,
  1
  ,
  2
- Presidential bid of (1968),
  1
Kenyon College,
1
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,
3
,
4
- Douglass House of,
  1

Kenyon
Review,
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Kenyon School of Letters,
1
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2
Kermode, Frank,
1
Kettering Foundation,
1
Kirstein, Lincoln,
1
Kissinger, Henry,
1
Kittredge, Fanny,
1
Kunitz, Stanley,
1
,
2
,
3
- on
  Dolphin,
  1

Labe, Louis,
1
Laforgue, Jules,
1
Land
of
Unlikeness
(Lowell),
1
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2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
- critical responses to,
  1
  ,
  2
Lanier, Sidney,
1
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2
Larkin, Philip,
1
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2
,
3
- on
  Life
  Studies,
  1
- poetic style of,
  1
Larner, Jeremy,
1
“Last Walk?” (Lowell),
1
Laughlin, James,
1
Law, William,
1
Leopardi, Giacomo, Lowell’s translated version of,
1
“Lesson, The” (Lowell),
1
“Leviathan” (Lowell),
1
Lewis, Cecil Day,
1
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2
,
3
Lewis, R. W. B.,
1
Lewis, Wyndham,
1
,
2
Library of Congress, Poetry Consultant position at,
1
,
2
Life
magazine,
1
Life
Studies
(Lowell),
1
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2
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3
,
4
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5
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6
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8
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9
,
10
,
11
- critical responses to,
  1
- inconsistency of style in,
  1
- as innovative,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
- National Book Award won for,
  1
- royalties from,
  1
- structure of,
  1
- Thompson on,
  1
- Williams on,
  1
“Life Studies” (Lowell),
1
Lincoln, Abraham,
1
,
2
Lipton, Lawrence,
1
lithium carbonate,
1
London
Magazine,
1
,
2
London
Observer,
1
,
2
,
3
London
Times,
1
,
2
“Loneliness” (Lowell),
1
Lord
Weary
’
s
Castle
(Lowell),
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
- critical responses to,
  1
- Jarrell on,
  1
- poetic style refined in,
  1
- publication of,
  1
- Ransom on,
  1
- translated poetry in,
  1
Louisiana State University,
1
Lowell, A. Lawrence (cousin),
1
,
2
,
3
- Robert’s correspondence with,
  1
- in Sacco and Vanzetti conviction,
  1
Lowell, Alfred Putnam (cousin),
1
,
2
Lowell, Amy,
1
Lowell, Charlotte Winslow (mother),
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
- courtship and marriage of,
  1
- Dawson as viewed by,
  1
  ,
  2
- death of,
  1
- Dick as viewed by,
  1
  ,
  2
- Hardwick’s correspondence with,
  1
  ,
  2
- husband’s death and,
  1
- marital discontents of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
- as Moore’s assistant,
  1
  ,
  2
- Moore’s correspondence with,
  1
  ,
  2
- Moore’s relationship with,
  1
  ,
  2
- pregnancy of,
  1
- psychotherapy as viewed by,
  1
- in Rapallo,
  1
- Robert’s breakdowns and,
  1
  ,
  2
- Robert’s car accident and,
  1
- in Robert’s childhood
  religiosexuality
  ,
  1
- Robert’s correspondence with,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  ,
  6
  ,
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  ,
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  ,
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  ,
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  ,
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  ,
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- Robert’s draft evasion and,
  1
- in Robert’s will,
  1
- Stafford as viewed by,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
Lowell, Cornelius (ancestor),
1
Lowell, Guy (ancestor),
1
Lowell, Harriet (ancestor),
1
Lowell, Harriet Winslow (daughter),
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
- birth of,
  1
- early childhood of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  ,
  6
- Lowell’s correspondence with,
  1
  ,
  2
- parents’ separation and,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  ,
  6
  ,
  7
  ,
  8
Lowell, James,
1
Lowell, James Russell (ancestor),
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
Lowell, Percival,
1
,
2
Lowell, Rebecca (ancestor),
1
Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, I (
great-grandfather
),
1
,
2
,
3
Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, III (
father
),
1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
- background of,
  1
- courtship and marriage of,
  1
- death of,
  1
- Dick as viewed by,
  1
- Hardwick as viewed by,
  1
  ,
  2
- hostility to Robert of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
- ill health of,
  1
  ,
  2
- money as viewed by,
  1
- Moore’s view of,
  1
- naval career of,
  1
  ,
  2
- Robert as viewed by,
  1
  ,
  2
- Robert’s attack on,
  1
- Robert’s car accident and,
  1
- Robert’s correspondence with,
  1
- on Robert’s psychotherapy,
  1
- Stafford as viewed by,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
- will of,
  1
Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, IV:
- American Academy of Arts and
  Letters
  awards to,
  1
  ,
  2
- autobiographical writings of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
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  ,
  6
  ,
  7
  ,
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  ,
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  ,
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  ,
  11
  ,
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  ,
  13
- “bear-characters” of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
- in Boston Psychopathic Hospital,
  1
  ,
  2
- at Brimmer School,
  1
- Caligula/Caliban nickname of,
  1
  ,
  2
- car accident of,
  1
- Catholic conversion of,
  1
- Catholicism abandoned by,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
- Catholicism as viewed by,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
- childhood belligerence of,
  1
  ,
  2
- children as viewed by,
  1
- children of,
  see
  Lowell, Harriet Winslow; Lowell, Sheridan
- as college football player,
  1
- in Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital,
  1
- Communism as viewed by,
  1
  ,
  2
- on conformity,
  1
- on “cooked” vs. “raw” poetry,
  1
- critical pieces by,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
- death of,
  1
- depressions of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
- diagnoses of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  ,
  6
  ,
  7
- divorces of,
  see
  Hardwick, Elizabeth; Stafford, Jean
- dolphin obsession of,
  1
- draft evasion of,
  1
  ,
  2
- dramatizations by,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  ,
  6
- drinking of,
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- drug therapy of,
  1
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  ,
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- Duxbury house of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
- early childhood of,
  1
- early poetic style of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
- early publications of,
  1
  ,
  2
- engagements of,
  see
  Buckman,
  Gertrude
  ; Dawson, Carley; Dick, Anne Tuckerman; Hardwick, Elizabeth; Madonia, Giovanna; Stafford, Jean
- “enthusiasm” of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
- Episcopalian Church rejoined by,
  1
- eschatological viewpoint of,
  1
  ,
  2
- European sojourn of,
  1
- family origins explored by,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
- father’s death and,
  1
- first published poem of,
  1
- Ford Foundation grant to,
  1
- as Ford’s secretary,
  1
- on God,
  1
- in Greenways Nursing Home,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
- Guggenheim fellowship awarded to,
  1
- Guinness Poetry Prize won by,
  1
- at Harvard,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  ,
  6
  ,
  7
  ,
  8
  ,
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  10
  .
  11
  ,
  12
- Harvard fellowship sought by,
  1
- heart illness of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
- Hitler fixation of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
- Hollywood offers to,
  1
- in Institute for Living,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
- intellectual awakening of,
  1
- in Israel,
  1
- jail term of,
  1
  ,
  2
- in Jewish Hospital,
  1
- at Kenyon College,
  1
  ,
  2
- in Kreuzlingen sanatorium,
  1
- at Library of Congress,
  1
  ,
  2
- love poems of,
  1
- at LSU,
  1
- in McCarthy’s Presidential bid (1968),
  1
  ,
  2
- in McLean Hospital,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
- marriages of,
  see
  Blackwood, Lady Caroline; Hardwick, Elizabeth; Stafford, Jean
- in Massachusetts General Hospital,
  1
- in Mexico,
  1
- on mis-spelling,
  1
- as model for “An Influx of Poets,”
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
- as model for
  Crystal
  Sepulcher,
  1
- as model for “Home Front,”
  1
- as model for “1939,”
  1
- mother’s death and,
  1
  ,
  2
- in Munich hospital,
  1
- musical interests of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
- Nantucket retreat of (1935),
  1
  ,
  2
- Nantucket retreat of (1936),
  1
- National Book Award address of,
  1
- nervous breakdowns of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  ,
  6
  ,
  7
  ,
  8
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  9
  ,
  10
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  11
  ,
  12
  ,
  13
- at New School,
  1
- on nuclear warfare,
  1
- Obie award won by,
  1
- order craved by,
  1
- parents recollected by,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  ,
  6
  ,
  7
- in Payne Whitney,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
- poetic meter considered by,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
- poetic style of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  ,
  6
  ,
  7
  ,
  8
  ,
  9
  ,
  10
  ,
  11
  ,
  12
- on poetic translations,
  1
- on poetry,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
- political poetry of,
  1
  ,
  2
- political views of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  ,
  6
  ,
  7
  ,
  8
- post-conversion remarriage of,
  1
- in Pound affair,
  1
- in Priory Hospital,
  1
- prose period of,
  1
  ,
  2
- psychotic episode described by,
  1
  ,
  2
- as public speaker,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
- Pulitzer Prize won by,
  1
- “reconversion” of,
  1
  ,
  2
- recuperative periods of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  ,
  6
  ,
  7
  ,
  8
- religion vs. sexuality in,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
- religious mania of,
  1
  ,
  2
- in return to Boston,
  1
- at Rivers school,
  1
- in St. Andrews Hospital,
  1
- at St. Mark’s school,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
- in Salzburg,
  1
- sexual initiation of,
  1
  ,
  2
- slovenliness of,
  1
  ,
  2
- sonnets of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
- in South America,
  1
- Southern sojourn of,
  1
  ,
  2
- teaching methods of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
- theatrical interests of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
- at University of Cincinnati,
  1
  ,
  2
- at University of Iowa,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
- valedictory address of,
  1
- as “victim hero,”
  1
- violence of,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  ,
  6
- war as viewed by,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
  ,
  4
  ,
  5
  ,
  6
  ,
  7
  ,
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- will drafted by,
  1
- on women,
  1
  ,
  2
  ,
  3
- in Yaddo affair,
  1
  ,
  2

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