These letters document the evolution of Lowell's work and illuminate another side of his life: his deep friendships with other writers, his manic depression, his marriages to three prose writers, and his involvement with the antiwar movement of the 1960s.
1942), writer and editor Brandt, Willy (1913–1992) Bray, Malcolm Bray, Thea Crooks Brecht, Bertolt (1898–1956), playwright: Threepenny Opera ... 1927), writer and theater director Büchner, Georg (1813–1837) Buckley, James L. (b.
Evelyn, John (1620–1706), British diarist F Fabiani, Mario (1912–74), mayor of Florence (1946–51) Farley, ... U.S. ambassador to Japan (1930–32) Ford, Ford Madox (1873–1939), British writer Ford, Gerald Rudolph (1913–2006), ...
A Biography Ian Hamilton. (which, if it will not be redeemed, surely deserves further punishment). Like the earlier book, Lord Weary's Castle is marked throughout by what Gabriel Pearson called Lowell's “unacknowledged flight into the ...
Sarah Ruhl is one of the most lauded and produced playwrights working today, with plays beloved for their unembarrassed lyricism, casual surrealism, and naked emotional force.
Lowell to Robert W. Flint , 28 October 1948. R. W. Flint . Speaking of his poem “ Mother Marie Therese , " set in Canada in 1912 , Lowell added that his Canada was actually a construct of Maine and the nineteenth - century historian ...
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1920–1928 Robert Frost. I suppose you have come back a Buddhist or something if you have been all this time Oriented.51 The next time I have a running brook on my farm I'll have to have you on to ordain set up and set going a prayer ...
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 ...
With titles as varied as "On Lice" to "On Sleeping in Theaters" and "Motherhood and Stools (The Furniture Kind)," these essays are artful meditations on life in the arts and joyous jumbles of observations on everything in between.
A photographer, Ann Phillips, had come to Boston to photograph me. This made me horribly self-conscious, and I tried to think of other things she might photograph that would be more interesting. I took her to visit Anne.