| Description |
1 online resource (256 pages) |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: "Family" -- Oberlin and Boston, 1958-1959 -- Early Days in Boston First Impressions, January 1959 -- First Meeting with Robert Lowell Boston University, 1959 -- First Classes at Boston University, 1959-1960 -- Sylvia Plath, 1959-1960 -- Robert Lowell's Appearance -- Lowell's Way of Teaching -- Anne Sexton, 1959-1974 -- Later Visits with Anne Sexton Reflections on Psychotherapy and Sleep -- Teatime with Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick -- Literary Boston in the Late '50s and '60s Social Milieu, Class, and the Literary Tradition -- Significant Other, 1959-1977 -- Adrienne Rich, 1960s -- Two Sets of Classes Boston University and Harvard, 1959-1977 -- Elizabeth Bishop and Ping-Pong, 1974-1979 -- Boston and Its Influence Bishop and Lowell -- Lowell's Poet Friends Frank Bidart, Lord Gowrie, Bill Alfred -- Stanley Kunitz, 1971-2006 -- Lowell and Women Students, Friends, and Wives! -- Young Marriage in Somerville A Small Apartment, a Mad Inventor, Literary Visitors, 1960-1977 -- He Was Ancient! He Was Over Forty! (After Office Hours at Harvard) -- Underside "Madness" and the Culture of Nervous Breakdowns -- Alcohol and Drugs -- Gender and Suicide -- Gifted Young Student Peter Kaplan, 1963-1977 -- "Po Biz" Submission, Rejection, Money -- "Genius at Work" Revision, Presentation, Contribution -- Allen Ginsberg and Robert Lowell Two Branches of American Poetry -- "Romantics" Seminar, Harvard University, Spring 1977 -- Final Spring, 1977 -- Looking for Robert Lowell's Grave, October 1977 -- Notes of a Witness |
| Summary |
"A memoir of a famous poetry circle. In 1959 Kathleen Spivack won a fellowship to study at Boston University with Robert Lowell. Her fellow students were Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton, among others. Thus began a relationship with the famous poet and his circle that would last to the end of his life in 1977 and beyond. Spivack presents a lovingly rendered story of her time among some of the most esteemed artists of a generation. Part memoir, part loose collection of anecdotes, artistic considerations, and soulful yet clear-eyed reminiscences of a lost time and place, hers is an intimate portrait of the often suffering Lowell, the great and near great artists he attracted, his teaching methods, his private world, and the significant legacy he left to his students. Through the story of a youthful artist finding her poetic voice among literary giants, Spivack thoughtfully considers how poets work. She looks at friendships, addiction, despair, perseverance and survival, and how social changes altered lives and circumstances. This is a beautifully written portrait of friends who loved and lived words, and made great beauty together. A touching and deeply revealing look into the lives and thoughts of some of the most influential artists of the twentieth century, With Robert Lowell and His Circle will appeal to writers, students, and thoughtful literary readers, as well as to scholars."--Project Muse |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Spivack, Kathleen.
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| SUBJECT |
Spivack, Kathleen fast |
| Subject |
American poetry -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History and criticism
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Poets, American -- 20th century -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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American poetry
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Poets, American
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Massachusetts -- Boston
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012027775 |
| ISBN |
9781555537654 |
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1555537650 |
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1283738589 |
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9781283738583 |
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