Book contents
- Robert Lowell in Context
- Robert Lowell In Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Places
- Chapter 1 Boston
- Chapter 2 The American South
- Chapter 3 New York
- Chapter 4 England and Ireland
- Part II American Politics, American Wars
- Part III Some Literary Models
- Part IV Contemporaries
- Part V Life, Illness, and the Arts
- Part VI Reputation and New Contexts
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 4 - England and Ireland
from Part I - Places
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 March 2024
- Robert Lowell in Context
- Robert Lowell In Context
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Places
- Chapter 1 Boston
- Chapter 2 The American South
- Chapter 3 New York
- Chapter 4 England and Ireland
- Part II American Politics, American Wars
- Part III Some Literary Models
- Part IV Contemporaries
- Part V Life, Illness, and the Arts
- Part VI Reputation and New Contexts
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
This chapter concerns Lowell’s years in England and Ireland, his divorce from Elizabeth Hardwick, and third marriage to Lady Caroline Blackwood. It focuses on the controversy around the publication of The Dolphin (1973), which deals with these matters and damaged his reputation. It also concerns Lowell’s state of mind, his health, and his interaction with British university life and British poetry, although these were of less pressing concern to him than his relationships and his fierce commitment to his own poetry. The chapter begins with Lowell as a temporarily jaded public figure leaving America to take creative respite in England. During his time here, he reworks his Notebook to produce History and For Lizzie and Harriet, while newer sonnets appear in The Dolphin. Despite the more warmly received Day by Day (1977), the chaos in his marriage leads him to return to America and Hardwick, where he dies at age sixty.
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- Robert Lowell In Context , pp. 41 - 52Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024