Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973

Name: Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973
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ISBN: 9780374538279

by Robert Lowell

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The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973 is an expanded edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning provocative poetry collection that crossed the line between art and life.

I have sat and listened to too many
words of the collaborating muse,
and plotted perhaps too freely with my life,
not avoiding injury to others,
not avoiding injury to myself--
to ask compassion . . . this book, half fiction,
an eelnet made by man for the eel fighting
my eyes have seen what my hand did.

Winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Robert Lowell's The Dolphin was controversial from the beginning: many of the poems include letters from Robert Lowell's wife, the celebrated writer and critic Elizabeth Hardwick, wrote to him after he left her for the English socialite and writer Caroline Blackwood. He was warned by many, among them Elizabeth Bishop, that "art just isn't worth that much."

Nevertheless, these poems are a powerful document of an impulsive love, and a moving record of Lowell's change from one life and marriage in America to a new life on new terms with a new family in England, rendered with the stunning technical power and control for which he was so celebrated.

This new edition, which follows the 1973 edition, includes scans of the pages of Lowell's original manuscript, giving us a look into the brilliant and complicated mind of one of our most beloved and distinguished poets.

Publisher:: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN:: 9780374538279
Binding:: Paperback
Pages:: 224
Authors:: Robert Lowell
Published Date:: 2019-12-10
Language:: English

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About Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell (1917-1977) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, into a prominent New England family and became a central figure of confessional poetry. He is the author of Life Studies (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1959). He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice, for Lord Weary's Castle (1947) and The Dolphin (1974). A conscientious objector during World War II, he was imprisoned for refusing to serve. He taught at Boston University, where his students included Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, and served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.

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