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Born in March 1, 1917 / Died in September 12, 1977 / United States / English

Bibliography

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POETRY

  • Land of Unlikeness, introduction by Allen Tate, Cummington Press (Cummington, MA), 1944, reprinted, University Microfilms (Ann Arbor, MI), 1971.
  • Lord Weary's Castle (also see below), Harcourt, 1946, reprinted, 1985.
  • Poems, 1938-1949, Faber, 1950, reprinted, 1987.
  • The Mills of the Kavanaughs (also see below), Harcourt, 1951.
  • Life Studies (also see below), Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1959, 2nd edition published with prose memoir "91 Revere Street," Faber, 1968.
  • Lord Weary's Castle [and] The Mills of the Kavanaughs, Meridian Books, 1961, reprinted, Harcourt, 1979.
  • For the Union Dead (also see below), Farrar, Straus, 1964.
  • Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804-1864 (limited edition keepsake of centenary commemoration of Hawthorne's death), Ohio State University Press, 1964.
  • Selected Poems, Faber, 1965, reprinted, 1986.
  • The Achievement of Robert Lowell: A Comprehensive Selection of His Poems, edited and introduced by William J. Martz, Scott, Foresman, 1966.
  • Life Studies, [and] For the Union Dead, Noonday, 1967.
  • Near the Ocean (also see below), drawings by Sidney Nolan, Farrar, Straus, 1967.
  • 4, privately printed limited edition by Laurence Scott (Cambridge, MA), 1969.
  • R. F. K., 1925-1968, privately printed limited edition, 1969.
  • Notebook 1967-1968, Farrar, Straus, 1969 , 3rd edition revised and expanded as Notebook, 1970.
  • Fuer die Toten der Union (English with German translations; contains poetry from Life Studies, Near the Ocean, and For the Union Dead), Suhrkamp (Frankfort on the Main), 1969.
  • Poems de Robert Lowell (English with Spanish translations), Editorial Sudamericana (Buenos Aires), 1969.
  • Poesie, 1940-1970 (English with Italian translations), Longanesi (Milan), 1972.
  • History (also see below), Farrar, Straus, 1973.
  • For Lizzie and Harriet (also see below), Farrar, Straus, 1973.
  • The Dolphin (also see below), Farrar, Straus, 1973.
  • Robert Lowell's Poems: A Selection, edited and introduced, with notes, by Jonathan Raban, Faber, 1974.
  • Selected Poems, Farrar, Straus, 1976, revised edition, Noonday, 1977.
  • Ein Fischnetz aus teerigem Garn zu knuepfen: Robert Lowell (English with German translations; contains poems from Lord Weary's Castle, Life Studies, For the Union Dead, Near the Ocean, History, The Dolphin, and For Lizzie and Harriet), Verlag Volk und Welt (Berlin), 1976.
  • Day by Day, Farrar, Straus, 1977.
  • A Poem, Menhaden Press (Vermillion, SD), 1980.
  • Collected Poems, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997.

DRAMA

  • The Old Glory (trilogy; contains "Endecott and the Red Cross" [also see below] and "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," both based on short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and "Benito Cereno" [also see below], based on a novella by Herman Melville; first produced Off-Broadway at the American Place Theatre, November 1, 1964), introduction by Robert Brustein, director's note by Jonathan Miller, Farrar, Straus, 1965 , revised edition, 1968.
  • Prometheus Bound: Derived from Aeschylus (first produced by Yale School of Drama, May 9, 1967; produced Off-Broadway at Mermaid Theatre, June 24, 1971), Farrar, Straus, 1969, reprinted, 1987.
  • Endecott and the Red Cross (revised and expanded version of one-act play of the same title; first produced in New York City by the American Place Theatre at St. Clements Episcopal Church, May, 1968), American Place Theatre, 1968.
  • Benito Cereno (English with Italian translation), edited and introduced by Rolando Anzilotti, All'insegna del pesce d'oro (Milan), 1969.

TRANSLATOR

  • Eugenio Montale, Poesie de Montale, Laterna (Bologna), 1960.
  • (And editor) Imitations (versions of poems by Homer, Sappho, Rainer Maria Rilke, Francois Villon, Stephane Mallarme, Charles-Pierre Baudelaire, and others; mimeographed typescript entitled Imitations: A Book of Free Translations by Robert Lowell for Elizabeth Bishop privately circulated before publication, c. 1960), Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1961.
  • (With Jacques Barzun) Jean Baptiste Racine and Pierre Beaumarchais, Phaedra and Figaro (also see below; Beaumarchais's Figaro translated by Barzun; Racine's Phaedra translated by Lowell), Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1961.
  • Phaedra, Faber, 1963, Octagon Books, 1971.
  • The Voyage, and Other Versions of Poems by Baudelaire, illustrations by Sidney Nolan, Farrar, Straus, 1968.
  • The Oresteia of Aeschylus (contains "Agamemnon," "Orestes," and "The Furies"), Farrar, Straus, 1978.

OTHER

  • (Author of introduction) Nathaniel Hawthorne, Pegasus, the Winged Horse, Macmillan, 1963.
  • (Author of introductions with Kenneth Rexroth) Ford Madox Ford, Buckshee (poems), Pym-Randall Press, 1966.
  • (Author of appreciation) Randall Jarrell, The Lost World, Collier, 1966.
  • (Editor with Peter Taylor and Robert Penn Warren) Randall Jarrell, 1914-1965 (essays), Farrar, Straus, 1967, reprinted, Noonday, 1985.
  • The Poetry of Robert Lowell (sound recording of reading at Y.M.-Y.W.H.A. Poetry Center in New York City, 1968), Jeffrey Norton, 1974.
  • Robert Lowell: A Reading (sound recording of reading at Poetry Center of the 92nd Street "Y" in New York City, December 8, 1976), Caedmon, 1978.
  • Robert Lowell Reading His Own Poems (sound recording of Twentieth-Century Poetry in English series), Library of Congress, 1978.
  • Collected Prose, edited and introduced by Robert Giroux, Farrar, Straus, 1987.
  • The Letters of Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton, Farrar, Straus, & Giroux (New York, NY), 2005.

Contributor to numerous anthologies. Contributor to periodicals, including Kenyon Review, New Republic, New World Writing, New York Review of Books, Observer, Partisan Review, Salmagundi, and Sewanee Review.