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Descriptive Summary

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Contents

Restrictions

Index Terms

Related Material

Administrative Information

For further information on the life and work of Robert Lowell, see

Description of Series

Series I. Works, ca. 1930s-1987 (bulk 1970-1977),

Series II. Correspondence, 1938-1977 (bulk 1970-1977),

Series III. Personal Papers, ca. 1845-1988,

Series IV. Sound Recordings and Music Scores, 1958-1987, nd,

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University of Texas, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

Robert Lowell:

An Inventory of His Papers at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center


Descriptive Summary

Creator: Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977
Title: Robert Lowell Papers
Dates: ca. 1845-1988 (bulk 1970-1977)
Abstract: Although this body materials spans more than a century, the bulk of the materials document Lowell's writings as a poet, playwright, and translator during the last seven years of his life. Heavily edited drafts of poems published in The Dolphin, Lizzie and Harriet, History, and Day by Day illustrate Lowell's propensity for revision. The collection also includes photographs, medical files, and legal papers that provide biographical information about Lowell's early and later life. In addition, the collection contains letters and manuscripts from several of Lowell's contemporaries.
RLIN Record #: TXRC94-A10
Extent: 23 boxes (oversize materials in box 23), 9 galley folders, 14 sound recordings (11.5 linear feet)
LanguageEnglish.
Repository: Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin

Biographical Sketch

American poet Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was born in Boston on March 1, 1917, to Robert Traill Spence Lowell III and Charlotte Winslow Lowell, a relation of writers James Russell Lowell and Amy Lowell. In addition to being the descendant of poets, Lowell encountered and was taught by numerous prominent poets during his classicist education. Lowell attended St. Mark's School (1930-1935), where he was influenced by Richard Eberhart, and Harvard University (1935-1937). In 1937, Boston psychiatrist and poet Merrill Moore sent young Lowell to meet Ford Madox Ford, who was visiting Allen Tate in Tennessee at the time. It was there that Tate introduced Lowell to John Crowe Ransom, and Lowell subsequently transferred to Kenyon College (1937-1940) where Ransom had accepted a new post. It was at Kenyon that Lowell made the acquaintance of lifelong friends Randall Jarrell and Peter Taylor. Lowell also came under the tutelage of Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks when he undertook further study at Louisiana State University (1940-1941).

After college, Lowell worked as an editor and as a teacher at several institutions, including the State University of Iowa, the Kenyon School of Letters, Boston University, Harvard University, the University of Essex, and Kent University, among others. During his career, he taught such poets as W. D. Snodgrass, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath.

His first volume of poetry, Land of Unlikeness, was published in 1944 and was followed in 1946 by his Pulitzer Prize winning effort Lord Weary's Castle. Lowell also won the National Book Award for his 1959 work Life Studies, and again received the Pulitzer for The Dolphin, published in 1973. His final work, Day By Day, was published in 1977 and was awarded the National Book Award Critics Circle Award. His other major works include: Poems 1938-1949 (1950), The Mills of the Kavanaughs (1951), For the Union Dead (1964), Near the Ocean (1967), Notebook 1967-1968 (1969), For Lizzie and Harriet (1973), and History (1973).

Lowell also wrote and translated plays ( Phaedra and Figaro, 1961; The Old Glory, 1965; Prometheus Bound, 1969; The Oresteia of Aeschylus, 1978), and published translations of poetry by Eugenio Montale ( Poesie di Montale, 1960), Baudelaire ( The Voyage and Other Versions of Poems by Baudelaire,1968), and others ( Imitations, 1961).

His work especially during the 1960s and 1970s stressed his preoccupations with political and social issues, such as protest of the

Vietnam War and support of presidential candidate Eugene McCarthy. During this same period, Lowell's early formal style gave way to a controversial personal or confessional style of poetry under the influence of such poets as John Berryman, William Carlos Williams, and Ezra Pound.

Lowell was married to Jean Stafford (1940, divorced 1948), to Elizabeth Hardwick (1949, divorced 1972), and to Caroline Blackwood (1972), and had two children, Harriet Winslow Lowell (born 1957) and Robert Sheridan Lowell (born 1971). He lived primarily in England after 1970 and died September 12, 1977, while on a visit to New York City.

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Scope and Contents

The Robert Lowell Papers, ca. 1845-1988, consist mainly of Lowell's working papers for the period 1970-1977. As such the papers include heavily revised drafts of manuscripts, galleys, and page proofs for Notebook (1970), The Dolphin (1973), For Lizzie and Harriet (1973), History (1973), and Day By Day (1977). Also present are an early notebook, manuscripts for a few earlier works such as "Endecott and the Red Cross" (1965) and "Prometheus Bound" (1969), manuscripts for works published posthumously such as The Oresteia of Aeschylus (1978) and Collected Prose (1987), as well as some unfinished and/or unpublished items. The balance of the collection contains manuscripts by friends, colleagues, and students, as well as correspondence, clippings, financial and legal papers, honorary degrees, medical papers, music scores, photographs, school publications and yearbooks, and sound recordings.

The bulk of this collection was acquired in 1982 and came in two large suitcases, largely unorganized and unlabelled. Lowell was frequently assisted by the poet Frank Bidart during the 1970s, who was consulted for advice regarding the organization and arrangement of manuscripts in this collection. The collection has been arranged into four series: I. Works, ca. 1930s-1987 (14 boxes), II. Correspondence, 1938-1977 (2 boxes), III. Personal Papers, 1845-1988 (5 boxes), and IV. Sound Recordings and Music Scores, 1958-1987 (19 items).

The papers serve to document various aspects of Robert Lowell's life, chiefly his activities as poet, translator, and playwright, especially during the last seven years of his life. His working practices as a poet, his propensity for revision, and his evolving style during this later period are especially well represented in his manuscripts. His correspondence from colleagues and friends deals in part with his divorce from Elizabeth Hardwick and subsequent marriage to Caroline Blackwood, and his controversial treatment of these events in his poetry. Among Lowell's correspondents in this collection are William Alfred, Rolando Anzilotti, Frank Bidart, Elizabeth Bishop, Caroline Blackwood, Blair Clark, Elizabeth Hardwick, Stanley Kunitz, Harriet Winslow Lowell, Eugene J. McCarthy, Mary McCarthy, William Meredith, Marcia Nardi, Adrienne Cecile Rich, I. A. Richards, W. D. Snodgrass, Jean Stafford, Allen Tate, Peter Hillsman Taylor, Robert Penn Warren, and others.

In addition to the manuscripts and correspondence, various clippings of reviews and other critical assessments of Lowell's life and works are present, which further understanding of Lowell and his work. Some clippings, programs, handbills and other materials concerning productions of Lowell's plays ( "Benito Cereno,""Endecott and the Red Cross,""The Old Glory,""The Oresteia," and "Phaedra") are present, as are reviews and recordings of some musical settings of his work (Elliott Carter's In Sleep, In Thunder, Benjamin Britten's Phaedra, and John Hopkins' White Winter, Black Spring).

Lowell's early life is documented by photographs, family documents, school publications, and medical files which detail Merrill Moore's psychiatric treatment of Lowell, ca. 1935-1941. Correspondence to Moore includes letters from Lowell, as well as from family members and friends: Blair Clark, Anne Dick, Richard Eberhart, James Laughlin, Charlotte Winslow Lowell, Robert Traill Spence Lowell III, David McDowell, Frank Parker, John Crowe Ransom, Robb Ransom, Jean Stafford, Milton Starr, Allen Tate, Peter Hillsman Taylor, and Robert Penn Warren, and others.

His life in later years is chiefly detailed by the aforementioned manuscripts and correspondence, but further documentation of his activities is found among the financial and legal papers. Obituaries and items collected from various memorial services round out the collection, recording the response to Lowell's death by his contemporaries and the press.

There is also substantial information in the correspondence from other poets and writers which will assist the researcher interested in these various figures. Additionally, there are manuscripts present by some of these writers, such as Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Stanley Kunitz, Marcia Nardi, I. A. Richards, Peter Hillsman Taylor, and Robert Penn Warren. To a lesser extent, there are also manuscripts from some of Lowell's students, as well as his own notes regarding students, which relate to his role as educator.

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Restrictions

Access

Open for research

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Index Terms

Correspondents
Alfred, William, 1923- .
Alvarez, A. (Alfred), 1929- .
Anzilotti, Rolando.
Belitt, Ben, 1911- .
Bidart, Frank, 1939- .
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979.
Blackwood, Caroline.
Clark, Blair, 1917- .
Cousins, Norman.
Cowley, Malcolm, 1898- .
Davie, Donald.
Eberhart, Richard, 1904- .
Ewart, Gavin.
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926- .
Giroux, Robert.
Hamilton, Ian, 1938- .
Hardwick, Elizabeth.
Hazo, Samuel John.
Heaney, Seamus.
Hellman, Lillian, 1906- .
Jarrell, Mary.
Joyce, Lucia, d. 1982.
Kazin, Alfred, 1915- .
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.
Kunitz, Stanley, 1905- .
Larkin, Philip.
Laughlin, James, 1914- .
Lish, Gordon.
McCarthy, Eugene J., 1916- .
McCarthy, Mary, 1912- .
Macauley, Robie.
McClatchy, J.D., 1945- .
Malanga, Gerard.
Meredith, William, 1919- .
Moore, Merrill, 1903-1957.
Nardi, Marcia.
Nemerov, Howard.
Nolan, Sidney, 1917- .
Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929- .
Parker, Francis.
Powers, J.F. (James Farl), 1917- .
Rahv, Philip, 1908-1973.
Ransom, John Crowe, 1888-1974.
Rich, Adrienne Cecile.
Richards, I.A. (Ivor Armstrong), 1893- .
Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, 1917- .
Snodgrass, W.D. (William De Witt), 1926- .
Stafford, Jean, 1915- .
Tate, Allen, 1899- .
Taylor, Eleanor Ross, 1920- .
Taylor, Peter Hillsman, 1917- .
Trilling, Diana.
Van Duyn, Mona.
Voznesenskii, Andrei, 1933- .
Walcott, Derek.
Warren, Robert Penn, 1905- .
Weeks, Edward, 1898- .
Wilbur, Richard, 1921- .
Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.
Subjects
Poets, American--20th century.
Document Types
Galley proofs.
Juvenilia.
Medical records.
Photographs.
Poems.
Postcards.
School yearbooks.
Scores.
Scripts.
Sound recordings.

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Related Material

For other Robert Lowell materials at the HRHRC, see the following manuscript collections:

The Elizabeth Hardwick Papers at the HRHRC form an important adjunct to this collection, as they contain Lowell's letters to Hardwick, 1949-1977, and to his daughter Harriet, 1968-1977. Also present are numerous letters of condolence received by Hardwick upon Lowell's death.

The HRHRC Library also holds numerous published works both by and about Lowell (accessible through the book card catalog and the online catalog, UTCAT), as well as information in the Vertical File Collection.

The HRHRC Art Collection includes a watercolor and pastel caricature of Robert Lowell with Allen Ginsberg, W. H. Auden, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti by Zdzislaw Czermanski.

The HRHRC Theatre Arts Collection has costume and property designs by Robert LaVigne for the 1968 American Place Theater production of "Endecott and the Red Cross."

Harvard University has a major collection of Robert Lowell Papers, spanning approximately 1935-1970. The collection is described in The Robert Lowell Papers at the Houghton Library, Harvard University: A Guide to the Collection, compiled by Patrick K. Miehe. New York: Greenwood Press, 1990.
  • Andrews, Lyman - Recip.
  • Blunden, Edmund Charles - Recip.
  • Burnshaw, Stanley - see Archival Inventory
  • Hardwick, Elizabeth - see Archival Inventory
  • Jacobson, Dan - see Archival Inventory
  • Lehmann, John - Letters
  • London Magazine - Recip., Misc.
  • Lowell, Robert - Misc.
  • Macauley, Robie - Recip.
  • Malanga, Gerard - Recip.
  • Moore, Marianne - Misc.
  • Santayana, George - Recip., Misc.
  • Sexton, Anne - Letters, Recip.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition

Purchase, 1968-1992 (#4289, #9580, #12247, #12617)

Provenance

Materials relating to Endecott and the Red Cross were purchased in 1968 from the Gotham Book Mart, but the bulk of the manuscripts and correspondence comprising this collection were acquired from the Estate of Robert Lowell in 1982. Important additions (including additional manuscripts and correspondence, clippings, family documents, honorary degrees, medical files, memorial service materials, obituaries, photographs, school publications, and sound recordings) were received in 1991 from Elizabeth Hardwick, and another three items of correspondence were acquired through the Argosy Book Store in 1992.

Processed by

Jennifer Patterson and Joan Sibley, 1993-1994

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For further information on the life and work of Robert Lowell, see

Axelrod, Steven Gould. Robert Lowell: Life and Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1978.

Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 5: American Poets Since World War II. Detroit: Gale, 1980.

Fein, Richard J. Robert Lowell. Twayne's United States Author Series, no. 176. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1970.

Hamilton, Ian. Robert Lowell: A Biography. New York: Random House, 1982.

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Series Descriptions

 

Series I. Works, ca. 1930s-1987 (bulk 1970-1977),
14 boxes

Heavily revised drafts of manuscripts, galleys, and page proofs for Lowell's major works published between 1973-1977 ( The Dolphin, For Lizzie and Harriet, History, and Day By Day) form the majority of this series. Less complete is the material present for the revised edition of Notebook (1970), which is represented by galleys and page proofs. Additional major works present include the plays "Endecott and the Red Cross" (scripts and production materials for a 1968 staging) and "Prometheus Bound" (manuscripts and page proofs). Drafts of several prose pieces, such as "A Moment in American History" and "New England and Further," which formed the basis for the posthumous Collected Prose (1987), are also part of this collection.
Numerous unidentified and/or unpublished poems, such as the late poem "Summer Tides" and an unpublished poem to Randall Jarrell are also among these papers, as are unpublished essays on John Crowe Ransom, Lieutenant William L. Calley, and others. There is one early undated notebook of Lowell's, probably dating back to his school days, which appears to contain Latin and Greek texts, translations, transcriptions of poems, and some original poems.
The Works are arranged alphabetically by title, except for several folders of manuscripts gathered after Lowell's death by Frank Bidart and Elizabeth Hardwick, which have been left intact and have been placed at the end of the series. For the published volumes of poetry, the manuscripts of individual poems are generally arranged according to the order in which they appear in the publication. Some drafts of the poetry reflect a variant order of poems from the final published version, and the presumed original order of these drafts has been left intact. Individual manuscripts are grouped by title or first line in alphabetic folders, i.e. A-D, E, F, etc. An outline of the arrangement of the manuscripts appears on page 21 of this guide. An index to all manuscripts, by title or by first line (if untitled), has been compiled and also forms a part of this guide.
Lowell's scrupulous attention to detail and propensity for revision is amply demonstrated in the multiple drafts of most of his poems: frequently there are more than ten versions, and some have as many as one hundred different renditions. Numerous revisions and corrections to the manuscripts appear in Lowell's hand, as well as those of Frank Bidart and Caroline Blackwood. Lowell sometimes left drafts of poems untitled, though frequently he also revised the titles of poems as he progressed through these drafts. Often these are manuscript pages with a draft of one poem on the front, and a draft of a different poem on the verso. Due to the large number of revisions, the index to manuscripts in this guide should be consulted as a first step to locate variants of individual poems which are scattered amongst the manuscripts for these books.
The manuscripts for Notebook (1970) and for the three works published in 1973 ( The Dolphin, For Lizzie and Harriet, and History) document the complexities of Lowell's changing poetic style during this period and his perceptions of his poetry. Notebook (1970) included revisions of about 100 poems from Notebook 1967-1968, along with 97 new poems. Lowell himself sheepishly admitted in a note to the publication"I am loath to display a litter of variants... I couldn't stop writing and have handled my published book as if it were manuscript." His continuing dissatisfaction with the work resulted in yet further revision, breaking Notebook (1970) up into two new volumes, For Lizzie and Harriet (67 poems) and History (which incorporated 283 Notebook poems among its 368 poems). Careful analysis of the manuscripts of For Lizzie and Harriet and History will illuminate the evolution of these works, especially in regard to which of the Notebook poems in what sequences appeared in which drafts as compared with their final published versions.
Lowell further revised some poems that had appeared in The Dolphin, For Lizzie and Harriet, and History when Selected Poems was compiled and published in 1976. While Selected Poems is not represented in this collection by a group of manuscripts, it is possible that some of the drafts identified as belonging to one of the three 1973 works could represent the earlier discarded versions Lowell indicated he used for this publication.
The materials gathered by Frank Bidart largely concern Day By Day, although there are numerous poems from other works or some which may be unpublished. Manuscripts that were published after Lowell's death, such as The Oresteia of Aeschylus (1978), are also present, as is Lowell's "Cursory list of errors with HarrietCursory list of errors with Harriet" in which Lowell enumerated what he thought were his mistakes on his daughter's visit to England.
Manuscript items gathered by Elizabeth Hardwick also contain materials relating to Day By Day, various poems from other works, and unpublished poems, as well as several prose pieces including "Art and Evil" and "New England and Further," which appeared in Collected Prose (1987). Several of these manuscripts are photocopies, and may represent copies of originals held by other repositories.
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11Unidentified manuscripts or incomplete fragments
2A-D manuscripts
Day by Day (1977)
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13Unidentified poems & fragments
4Contents pages & corrections
Individual poems
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15Ulysses and Circe
6Homecoming
7Last Walk?
8Suicide
9Departure
10Our Afterlife I
11Our Afterlife II
12Louisiana State University in 1940
13For John Berryman
14Jean Stafford, a Letter
15Since 1939
16Square of Black
17Fetus
18Art of the Possible
19In the Ward
20Burial
21Ear of Corn
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21Off Central Park
2Death of a Critic
3Endings
4The Day
5Domesday Book
6We Took Our Paradise
7Lives
8The Spell
9This Golden Summer
10Milgate
11Realities
12Ants
13Sheridan
14Marriage
15The Withdrawal
16Logan Airport, Boston
17Wellesley Free
18To Mother
19Robert T. S. Lowell
20For Sheridan
21Bright Day in Boston
22St. Mark's, 1933
23To Frank Parker
24Morning after Dining with a Friend
25Return in March
26Suburban Surf
27Turtle
28Seventh Year
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31Shaving
2Runaway
3Caroline in Sickness
4Stars
5Seesaw
6Ten Minutes
7Visitors
8Three Freuds
9Home
10Shadow
11Notice
12Shifting Colors
13Unwanted
14The Downlook
15Thanks-Offering for Recovery
16Epilogue
17Rabbit, Weasel, and Cat
18George III
19Arethusa to Lycotas
20Draft A
21Draft B
22Page & galley proofs
23New Review Tearsheets
The Dolphin (1973)
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41Contents page & corrections
Individual poems
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42Fishnet - Diagnosis
3Shoes - Old Snapshot from Venice 1952
4Flashback to Washington Square 1966 - Fall Weekend at Milgate I-III
5Records - They
6The Friend - Flounder
7Mastodon - Day
8Artist's Model - Heavy Breathing
9Late Summer at Milgate - Ivana
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51Alimony - Sick
2Facing Oneself - New York Again
3No Messiah - Dolphin
4Draft A
5Draft B
6Draft C
7Draft D
8Draft E
9Draft F
10Draft G
11Draft H
12Draft I
13Draft J
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61Draft K
2Draft L
3Faber drafts
4Page & galley proofs
5E manuscripts
"Endecott and the Red Cross" (Published in The Old Glory, 1965)
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66Production notes, [1968]
7Working drafts, [1968]
8Revised scripts, Feb. 9, 1968
9F manuscripts
For Lizzie and Harriet (1973)
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71Incomplete draft poems & contents page
2Draft A
3Draft B
4Draft C
5Draft D
6Paste-up draft
7Faber drafts
8Page & galley proofs
9G-H manuscripts
History (1973)
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710Corrections
Individual poems
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711History - The Spartan Dead at Thermopylae
12Xerxes and Alexander - Rome In the Sixteenth Century
13Northmen - Christians
14Life and Civilization - Main Street
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81Revenants - Scar-Face
2Wolverines, 1927 - Sylvia Plath
3In Dreams Begin Responsibilities - The Just Forties
4Under the Moon - De Gaulle est mort
5Levi-Strauss in London - Ice
6-7Draft A
8-9Draft B
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91Draft C
2-3Draft D
4Paste-up draft 1
5Paste-up draft 2
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101Paste-up draft 3
2Paste-up draft 4
3Paste-up draft 5
4-6Faber drafts
7Notes & galley proofs
(2 sets)
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111I-M manuscripts
2-3"A Moment in American Poetry"
4N manuscripts
Notebook (1970)
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115Faber page proofs
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121-2Faber page proofs
3Galley proofs and production materials
4O-P manuscripts
5Prometheus Bound (1969)
6Q-Z manuscripts
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131Materials gathered by Frank Bidart
2-3Materials gathered by Elizabeth Hardwick, April-July 1977
4Materials gathered by Elizabeth Hardwick, Summer 1977
Materials gathered by Elizabeth Hardwick, 1991 [folder titles are EH's except those in brackets which were supplied]
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141Articles and poems (printed), 1963-1973, nd
2[Collected Prose], 1987
3Drafts of essays, poems, nd
4Lowell's papers (poems, xerox of a children's story, and notes), nd
5[ "New England and Further"], nd
6[School notebook], ca. 1930s. Contains Latin and Greek texts, translations, various poems (some copied, some are early works by Lowell)
7Xeroxed copies of drafts of poems and essays, nd

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Series II. Correspondence, 1938-1977 (bulk 1970-1977),
2 boxes

The majority of this series consists of incoming correspondence, often addressed to both Lowell and Caroline Blackwood, his third wife. It is arranged alphabetically by author.
Among the correspondents are William Alfred, A. (Alfred) Alvarez, Rolando Anzilotti, Ben Belitt, Frank Bidart, Elizabeth Bishop, Caroline Blackwood, Blair Clark, Norman Cousins, Malcolm Cowley, Donald Davie, Richard Eberhart, Gavin Ewart, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Giroux, Ian Hamilton, Elizabeth Hardwick, Samuel John Hazo, Seamus Heaney, Lillian Hellman, Mary Jarrell, Lucia Joyce, Alfred Kazin, Robert F. Kennedy, Stanley Kunitz, Philip Larkin, James Laughlin, Gordon Lish, Harriet Winslow Lowell, Robie Macauley, Eugene J. McCarthy, Mary McCarthy, J. D. McClatchy, Gerard Malanga, William Meredith, Marcia Nardi, Howard Nemerov, Sidney Nolan, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Frank Parker, J. F. Powers, Philip Rahv, Adrienne Cecile Rich, I. A. Richards, Arthur Schlesinger, W. D. Snodgrass, Jean Stafford, Allen Tate, Eleanor Ross Taylor, Peter Hillsman Taylor, Diana Trilling, Mona Van Duyn, Andrei Voznesenskii, Derek Walcott, Robert Penn Warren, Edward Weeks, Richard Wilbur, Edmund Wilson, and others. A complete index of correspondents is included in this guide.
The letters cover a broad range of subjects, the most important of which deal with Lowell's relationship and divorce from his second wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, and his interpretation of their separation in The Dolphin. Other topics covered in the correspondence include requests for assistance from struggling poets, family letters, opinions on literary and political movements of the 1970s, letters of congratulation on the birth of his son, requests for literary contributions to magazines or festivals, personal letters, and news about friends and acquaintances. It should be noted that a few of the letters have notes or lines of poetry scribbled by Lowell on the back. Some correspondents enclosed manuscripts of articles or poems with their letters. A separate index of manuscripts by other authors appears at the end of this guide.
Also found in this series is a folder of outgoing mail from Lowell, a folder of letters to Caroline Blackwood, and a folder of correspondence addressed to persons other than Lowell or Blackwood. Further outgoing correspondence from Lowell will be found in the Personal Papers series, among the medical files of Merrill Moore.
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151Outgoing, 1948-1976, nd
Incoming, 1938-1977, nd (bulk 1970-1977)
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152Unidentified
3A
4Anzilotti, Rolando, 1971-1977
5B
6Bidart, Frank, 1970-1975
7Bishop, Elizabeth, 1968-1977
8Blackwood, Caroline, nd
9C
10Clark, Blair, 1970-1976
11D-F
12G-H
13Harvard University. Houghton Library, 1972-1975
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161I-K
2L
3M
4N-Q
5R-T
6Snodgrass, W.D., 1971-1977
7Taylor, Peter, 1970-1976
8U-Z
9Letters to Caroline Blackwood Lowell, 1972-1976
10Third party correspondence, 1938-1976

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Series III. Personal Papers, ca. 1845-1988,
5 boxes

A variety of personal papers concerning Lowell or of interest to him makes up this series. These papers are arranged alphabetically by format: Clippings, Critical Essays, Documents, Financial Papers, Honorary Degrees, Interviews, Legal Papers, Medical Files, Memorials, Notes and Sketches, Photographs, School Publications, Works by Other Writers, and Miscellaneous.
Various aspects of Lowell's life are documented by the personal records. Chronologically speaking, these include the Photographs (1845-1980s), Documents (1933-1945), School Publications (1933-1935), Medical Files (1935-1950s), Honorary Degrees (1961-1977), Financial Papers (1970-1977), Legal Papers (1972-1977), and Memorials (1977-1987).
The photographs include images of Lowell's grandparents and parents, and depict Lowell from his childhood through his adult life. Pictured with him are his wife Elizabeth Hardwick, children Harriet and Sheridan, and colleagues and friends, including Elizabeth Bishop, Ezra Pound, John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Peter Hillsman Taylor, and Robert Penn Warren. The photographs that include Lowell are arranged chronologically. Those which do not include him are grouped separately as family photographs. Another folder includes photographs of illustrations intended for The Dolphin, For Lizzie and Harriet, and History.
Among the documents are copies of family birth and death certificates, as well as Lowell's own certificate of parole dated 1944. The school publications date from Lowell's days at St. Mark's School and include class yearbooks as well as a 1935 issue of The Vindex with an article by Lowell entitled "The Iliad."
Of special note among these personal records are the medical files created by Dr. Merrill Moore, a poet and psychiatrist who treated Lowell from 1935 to 1941. The bulk of these files cover the years 1937-1939, though there is a gap for the period June through November, 1937.
The files consist of correspondence, internal memoranda, photographs, clippings, a report card from Kenyon College, and various internal office forms (such as psychotherapy records, telephone calls, etc.), all of which serve to document the case. Lowell's problems and his relationship with his parents are major topics, as are Lowell's relationships with others, such as Frank Parker, Anne Dick, and Jean Stafford. The files have been left in their original chronological order and include carbon copies of outgoing correspondence from Moore along with incoming correspondence from Lowell, his parents, other doctors, and friends. Correspondents include Blair Clark, Anne Dick, Richard Eberhart, James Laughlin, Charlotte Winslow Lowell, Robert Traill Spence Lowell III, David McDowell, Frank Parker, John Crowe Ransom, Robb Ransom, Jean Stafford, Milton Starr, Allen Tate, Peter Hillsman Taylor, and Robert Penn Warren. All correspondents in this subseries are included in the correspondents index in this guide.
One additional folder contains items identified by Elizabeth Hardwick as concerning Lowell's treatment by Dr. Vernon Williams during the 1950s.
Lowell's honorary degrees from several colleges and universities are also included in these papers.
The financial and legal papers are arranged chronologically and all date from the 1970s. Included are such items as Lowell's 1972 will, a copy of his divorce decree from Elizabeth Hardwick, banking papers, bills, book contracts, royalty statements, tax documents, and trust statements.
Materials collected by Elizabeth Hardwick from various memorial services for Robert Lowell are arranged chronologically by service, and include programs, invitations, and texts for readings.
The Clippings (1965-1988), Critical Essays (1970-1987), and Interviews (1971) all consist of writings about Lowell and his work. The clippings are predominately reviews of published works, productions of plays, and musical settings of his work. A few of the plays are also represented by other materials, such as programs and handbills. Review clippings and related materials are arranged alphabetically by title of the work. One folder consists of clippings of obituaries upon Lowell's death in 1977. Manuscripts, reprints, and clippings of various critical essays about Lowell occupy one folder. Two interviews, with Ian Hamilton and V. S. Naipaul, are also included.
Works by other writers include some of the manuscripts Lowell received from students, colleagues, and friends. Included are manuscripts by writers such as Elizabeth Bishop, Seamus Heaney, Stanley Kunitz, Marcia Nardi, I. A. Richards, Peter Hillsman Taylor, and Robert Penn Warren. These are arranged alphabetically by author. It should be noted that some of the manuscripts remain where they were originally located with incoming letters in the Correspondence Series. Locations for all manuscripts by other writers are included in a separate index at the end of this guide.
The Notes and Sketches include Lowell's typed chronology of Caroline Blackwood's marriage to Israel Citkowitz, notes about his students, and other miscellaneous notes. Other miscellany, including various clippings and ephemera saved by Lowell, are found in the Miscellaneous folder at the end of this Series.
Clippings, 1965-1988
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171Family, nd
2Obituaries, 1977
Reviews, 1966-1988
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173"Benito Cereno,"1976; also handbill
4Collected Prose, 1987-1988
5Day By Day, 1977-1978
6The Dolphin, 1973-1974
7The Dolphin, For Lizzie and Harriet, History, 1973-1976
8In Sleep, In Thunder, 1982
9Notebook, 1969-1971
10"The Old Glory,"1964-1976; also includes program; syllabus for Festival Theatre Student Study Series, 1966-67 Season
11The Oresteia of Aeschylus, nd
12"Phaedra,"1976-1978; includes poster and program from theatrical production by Young Actors Study Theatre, and programs from Benjamin Britten's musical version
13Selected Poems, 1976-1977
14The Voyage, 1968
15Works about Lowell, 1970-1984
16Robert Lowell by Ian Hamilton, 1983
17Miscellaneous, 1965-1975
18Critical Essays about Lowell, 1970-1987; manuscripts, reprints, clippings, etc.
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181Documents, 1933-1945
Financial Papers, 1970-1977
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1821970-1974
31975-1977
Honorary Degreees, 1961-1977
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184Boston University, 1977
5Colby College, 1961
6New England Conservatory of Music, 1969
7Interviews, 1971
8Legal Papers, 1972-1977
Medical Files, 1935-1950s
Moore, Merrill, 1935-1941
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1911935-1937
21936
3nd
4Jan.-Mar. 1937
5Apr.-May 1937
6Dec. 1937
7Jan.-Feb. 1938
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201Mar.-Apr. 1938
2Apr.-Jun. 1938
3Jul.-Aug. 1938
4Sep.-Oct. 1938
5Nov.-Dec. 1938
6Jan.-Mar. 1939
7ca. 1940-1941 (fragmentary)
8Williams, Vernon, 1950s
Memorials, 1977-1987
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211BBC Radio, 13 Sep. 1977
2Church of the Advent, Boston, 16 Sep. 1977
3American Place Theater, New York, 25 Sep. 1977
4St. Luke's Church, Redcliffe Square, London, 5 Oct. 1977
5Houghton Library, Harvard University, 1 Mar. 1978
6Memorial Church, Harvard Yard, 2 Mar. 1978
7Universita' Degli Studi di Pisa, 25 Maggio 1978
8A Tribute to Robert Lowell, The Academy of American Poets, 14 Oct. 1987. See also Folder 22.2
9Notes and Sketches by Lowell, nd
Photographs, ca. 1845-1980s
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2110ca. 1920-1930s
11ca. 1940s-1959
12ca. 1960-1967
13ca. 1968-1977
14Family Members, ca. 1845-1980s
15Miscellaneous; includes photographs of illustrations for The Dolphin, For Lizzie and Harriet, and History
School Publications, 1933-1935
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2116The Vindex, St. Mark's School, Jun. 1935
Yearbooks, St. Mark's School, 1933-1935
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21171933
181934
191935
Works by Other Writers, 1969-1976, nd
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2120Manuscripts and proofs, 1969-1975, nd
21Clippings and photocopies of published items, 1971-1976, nd
22Miscellaneous

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Series IV. Sound Recordings and Music Scores, 1958-1987, nd,
19 items

This group of 18 sound recordings consists of cassettes, reels, and discs, including several commercially produced recordings, which were acquired from Elizabeth Hardwick. Several are spoken word recordings of Lowell and/or other poets (such as Ezra Pound) reading from his poetry or translations. The rest are recordings of plays by Lowell ( "Benito Cereno") or of musical settings of his work ( In Sleep, In Thunder by Elliott Carter, Phaedra by Benjamin Britten, and White Winter, Black Spring, by John Hopkins). One music score, for White Winter, Black Spring, is also present. Items are arranged by format, and then alphabetically by title or artist.
Cassettes, 1985-1987, nd
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221Myopia: A Night. Robert Lowell-Leo Smith, nd
2A Tribute to Robert Lowell. With William Alfred, Frank Bidart, Robert Giroux, Seamus Heaney, Anthony Hecht, Stanley Kunitz, Peter Taylor & Helen Vendler. Wednesday, October 14, 1987, 7:00 pm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Academy of American Poets
3White Winter, Black Spring by John Hopkins. Marilyn Hill/Henry Herford/Lontano Ensemble, cond. Odaline de la Martinez. BBC Studio Recording, Concert Hall, Broadcasting House, 29-11-85. Huddersfield Festival, St. Paul's Hall, Huddersfield, 22-11-85. [Music score for this work is housed in Oversize 23.3]
Discs, 1958-1986, nd
7", 1964
SR 1-3
Ezra Pound reading Robert Lowell's translation from Dante's Inferno, Canto XV, recorded 27/9/64
12", 1958-1986, nd
SR 4
Carter, Elliott. Triple Duo/In Sleep, In Thunder. Nonesuch Digital 79110, 1986
SR5
Britten, Benjamin. Phaedra. London OS26527, 1977
SR6
Robert Lowell: A Reading. Recorded Dec. 8, 1976 at the Poetry Center of the 92nd St. Y. Caedmon TC1569, 1978
SR7
Robert Lowell Reading from his poems, 29 April 1958
SR8
The Spoken Arts Treasury of 100 Modern American Poets Reading Their Poems. Spoken Arts SA1052 Vol. XIII, 1978?
SR9
Twentieth Century Poetry in English: Robert Lowell Reading His Own Poems. Library of Congress PL32-33, nd
SR10
Yale Series of recorded poets: Robert Lowell. Carillon Records YP301, nd
SR11
Yale Series of recorded poets: Allen Tate. Carillon Records YP300, nd
12" Box Sets, 1963, nd
SR12
An Album of Modern Poetry Read By the Poets. Gryphon GR 902/3/4, 1963
SR13
The American Place Theatre... presents from"The Old Glory" Benito Cereno by Robert Lowell. Columbia DOS 719 Stereo, nd
SR14
Same as SR13, except DOL 319 Mono, nd
Reels, 1964
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224Ezra Pound reading Robert Lowell's translation from Dante's Inferno, Canto XV, recorded at San Ambrogio di Rapallo, 27-9-64
5Empty envelopes & folders from which collection materials were removed
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23Oversize items. Removed from materials in Boxes 1-22, linked by separation sheets filed in original location, which refer the user to the correct oversize folder location within this box.

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 Robert Lowell Papers--Manuscripts Index--Poems 

Note: Titles in bold were published in either Notebook, 1967-1968 (1st or 2nd printing, N1 or N2), Notebook (1970 edition, N3), The Dolphin (D), For Lizzie and Harriet (FL&H), History (H), Day By Day (DBD), or Selected Poems (SP). The numbers immediately following these abbreviations denote the page numbers on which these poems were printed. Folder numbers appear after “--” and indicate in which folders poems with these titles or first lines may be found. A separate index for other manuscripts follows this index.

Titles or first lines not in bold refer to manuscripts not yet matched to the published titles, or to possibly unpublished items. Titles/first lines which are indented underneath published titles represent manuscripts which have been tentatively identified as drafts or variants of that published item.

  • 1930's I (H 105, SP 182)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.2, 10.4, 10.5
  • 1930's 2 (H 106, SP 183)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.2, 10.5
  • 1930's 3 (H 107, SP 183)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.2, 10.4, 10.5
  • 1930's 4 (H 107, SP 184)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.2, 10.4, 10.5
  • 1930's 5 (H 108, SP 185)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.2, 10.5
  • 1930's 6 (H 109, SP 185)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.2, 10.5
  • 1930's 7 (H 109)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.2, 10.4, 10.5
  • 1930's 8 (H 111)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.2, 10.4, 10.5
  • 1930's 9 (H 112, SP 186)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.2
  • 1958 (N1-89, N2-89, N3-148)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
  • 1968 (N1-89, N2-89, N3-149)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
  • 1970 New Year (N3-174)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
  • - A -
    • [A...] peasant again, we are as noble as the king..., The--13.1 [in Semester Composition notebook]
    • Abraham Lincoln (H 88, SP 169)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.2, 10.5
    • Abraham Lincoln (N3-171)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Abstraction (H 169)--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 10.1, 10.6
    • Abstractions (N3-161)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Achilles to the dying Lykaon (H 32)--7.11
      • Achilles to Lykaon--7.11, 8.1
    • Across Central Park (H 144)--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 10.6
      • Friend Across Central Park--10.3
    • Across Pont St.--5.1, 5.10
    • Across Pont Street--12.4
    • Across the Yard--4.1
    • Across the Yard: La Ignota (H 166), 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 10.1, 10.6
      • La Ignota--4.1, 7.10
    • Across the Yard: La Ignota (N1-68, N2-68, N3-113)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • After 30 years can we keep awake...--1.1
    • After Exorcism--4.7, 5.10
    • After safely guiding you fifty miles...--1.1
    • After the Convention (N1-138, N2-138, N3-229)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • After the Democratic Convention (H 177)--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 9.5, 10.6
    • After the Election: From Frank Parker's Loft (H 179)--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 10.6
      • November 7, From the Painter's Loft--9.5
    • After the Play (H 187)--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 9.5, 10.6
      • In bad moods, the London pavements are smeared with dog-mess...--1.1
      • Late Movie Meal--4.2, 4.6, 5.5, 5.6, 9.5
      • Late Movie Restaurant--4.5, 8.4
      • Morning, Noon and Night--8.4
      • Night, Morning and Day--8.4
    • Against the Moon-4.3
    • Agamemnon: A Dream (N1-16, N2-16, N3-41)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Age is less striking in other lives...--1.1
    • Agitato ma non troppo--1.3
    • Alba (N1-29, N2-29, N3-57)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Alcohol, 1-3 (N1-46, N2-46, N3-82)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Alexander (H 39, SP 154)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.4, 10.5
    • Alexander (N1-42, N2-42, N3-76)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Alice More?--4.2, 4.3, 8.3
    • Alimony (D 64)--5.1, 6.4
      • Second Dream--5.1
    • Allah (N1-96, N2-96, N3-162)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Almost madness, injection or infection..., The--13.1 [in Semester Composition notebook]
    • Alone--11.1 [A stone's throw off, seven eider ducks...]
    • America (D 66)--4.1, 5.1, 6.4
      • England under Clouds--5.1
      • Fascination of fishing the same waters...--5.2
      • Leaving America--4.1, 5.13
      • Looking back from London--5.1
    • America from Oxford (N3-237)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • America from Oxford, May 1970 (D 17)--4.1, 4.2, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.9, 5.11, 5.12, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
    • And at [D...] I wonder if my shaking hand... --13.1 [in Semester Composition notebook]
    • And death, the one thing death can never touch...--14.4
    • And the whole thing will be worried back...--1.1
    • Angling (D 55, SP 232)--4.1, 4.4, 4.8, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.9, 5.11, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
      • Game, The--4.4, 4.8, 5.10
    • Anne Boleyn (H 62)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.4, 10.5
    • Anne Dick I. 1936 (H 112, SP 187)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.2, 10.4, 10.5
    • Anne Dick 2. 1936 (H 113, SP 188)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.2, 10.4, 10.5
    • Annensky: White Winter, Black Spring (H 98)--9.2, 10.4
      • Annensky's White Winter, Black Spring--8.1
      • Death--8.1
      • Half-holiday for the burial...--7.12
      • White Winter, Black Spring--8.1
    • Another--7.10
    • Another Circle (N1-118, N2-118, N3-197)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Another Doctor (N1-113, N2-113)
    • Another Friend (N1-66, N2-66, N3-110)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Another June (N1-119, N2-119, N3-198)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Another Summer (D 63): See 1. Wildrose; 2. Dolphins; 3. Ivana; 4. Alimony; 5. The New
    • Antony (H 45)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.5
      • Europa--9.4
    • Antony (N1-94, N2-94, N3-157)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Antony and Cleopatra (H 46)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.4, 10.5
      • Marcus Antonius and Cleopatra--7.10
    • Ants (DBD 66)--1.4, 2.12, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, 13.3
      • Ant and the Oak, The--2.12
      • Awkwardness--2.12
      • Out of the Heat--2.12
    • April 8, 1968 (N1-87, N2-87, N3-146): See 1. Two Walls; 2. Words of a Young Girl; 3. Petit Bourgeois
    • April's End (N1-103, N2-103): See 1. King David Senex; 2. Night-Sweat; 3. Caligula; 4. To Werner von Uslingen; 5. Nostalgie de la Boue
    • April's End (N3-175): See 1. King David Senex; 2. Night-Sweat; 3. Caligula; 4. Goiter Tests: Werner von Uslingen; 5. Rush; 6. Nostalgie de la Boue
    • April (N1-90, N2-90): See 1. Roulette; 2. Europa; 3. Redskin; 4. Dalliance; 5. The Dialogue; 6. The Misanthrope and the Painter; 7. Even Such; 8. The White Goddess; 9. Sappho; 10. Antony; 11. A Moment; 12. Wind
    • April (N3-151): See 1. Roulette; 2. Europa; 3. Redskin; 4. Dalliance; 5. The Dialogue; 6. The Misanthrope and the Painter; 7. Even Such; 8. The White Goddess; 9. Topless; 10. A Souvenir; 11. Losers; 12. Sappho; 13. Good Losers; 14. Antony; 15. Aswan Dam; 16. For Gallantry; 17. A Moment; 18. Wind
    • Are the common English right to think...--1.1
    • Arethusa to Lycotas (DBD 136)--3.19, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, 13.3
      • Arethusa (?) sends this message to her...--13.1 [in Semester Composition notebook]
    • Ark, The (N1-111, N2-111, N3-186)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Army of the Duc de Nemours, The (H 56)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.4, 10.5
    • Army of the Duc de Nemours, The (N1-99, N2-99, N3-166)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Art of the Possible (DBD 36)--1.4, 1.18, 3.20, 3.22, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
    • Artist's Model 1-4 (D 52, SP 231)--4.1, 4.8, 5.1, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11, 5.13, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 8.5
      • Deathward--4.8
      • Parting--4.8
    • As imperceptibly...--1.2
    • Assassin! (H 175)--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 10.1, 10.4, 10.6
    • Assassin! (N3-205)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Aswan Dam (H 36)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.5
    • Aswan Dam (N3-158)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • At dawn, the crisp goodbye of friends...--7.1
    • At Offado's (D 44)--4.6, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.8, 5.9, 5.11, 5.13, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
      • Bohemia--4.7
      • Offado's--4.6, 5.10
      • To Elizabeth Bishop--4.6
    • At One--4.3
    • At ten P.M. the executions begin...--1.1
    • At the Air-Terminal--4.8, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8
    • At the Chez Dreyfus--1.2
    • Atticus--1.2, 5.2
    • Attila (N1-96, N2-96, N3-162)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Attila, Hitler (H 51, SP 157)--None
      • Attila--7.10, 8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.5
    • Auden said W.B. Yeats was not a gent...--4.7
    • August (N1-136, N2-136, N3-227)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Autumn in the Abstract (N1-29, N2-29, N3-57): See 1. Alba; 2. In Sickness; 3. Deutschland über Alles; 4. End of the Saga
  • - B -
    • Backward, The (N3-39): See 1. Dream of Fair Women; 2. The Last Resort; 3. The Walk
    • Base of the rugged sky, was one red glow..., The--4.5
    • Baudelaire I. The Abyss (H 90)--7.14, 9.2
    • Baudelaire 2. Recollection (H 90)--9.2
      • Baudelaire 2. Consider--9.2
    • Baudelaire, the Servant--1.2
    • Beethoven (H 79, SP 167)--9.1, 9.2, 10.4
      • Vague, The--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 10.1, 10.4, 10.5
    • Beethoven's Nephew--13.1 [Once again I am teaching my last classes your first stories...]
    • Before--12.6 [It was hard humoring you so long at home...]
    • Before Repeal (H 160)--8.7, 9.1, 9.3, 10.4
    • Before the Dawn of Woman (D 51)--4.7, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.9, 5.11, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
    • Before Waterloo, the Last Night (H 78)--9.2, 10.4
      • Last Evening--7.14, 8.1, 10.4
    • Before Woman--4.1
    • Before Woman (D 51): See 1. Before the Dawn of Woman; 2. Day
    • Believer, even a chronic one..., The--1.3
    • Bellosquardo--14.1 [by Eugenio Montale, translation by Robert Lowell]
    • Between Terms--4.1, 4.4
    • Beyond these houses, another rank of houses...--1.1
    • Bird (N1-57, N2-57, N3-99)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Bird? (H 25)--8.8, 9.1, 9.4, 10.5
    • Bishop Berkeley (H 72)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.5
    • Bishop Berkeley (N1-100, N2-100, N3-168)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Black, knock-kneed, crashing through courage...--1.3
    • Bland with astonishment...--1.1
    • Blizzard in Cambridge (H 162)--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 9.5, 10.6
    • Blizzard in Cambridge (N1-53, N2-53, N3-93)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Blood Test, 1931, after about forty Years (H 124)--None
    • Blues--4.4
    • Boat--5.10
    • Boats on the Marne--14.1 [by Eugenio Montale, translation by Robert Lowell]
    • Bobby Delano (H 108, SP 184)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.2, 10.5
    • Bond, The (N3-206)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Book of Wisdom, The (N1-56, N2-56, N3-97)--7.3, 11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Bosworth Field (H 60, SP 160)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.5
    • Bosworth Field (N1-98, N2-98, N3-165)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Bright Day in Boston (DBD 83)--1.4, 2.21, 3.20, 3.22, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3
      • Old Boston--2.21
    • Bringing a Turtle Home (FL&H 41, SP 211)--7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.8, 10.6
    • Bringing a Turtle Home (N3-242)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Brothers, we glory in this blinding hour...--14.7
    • Buonconte in Purgatory--5.2
    • Burial (DBD 41)--1.20, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, 13.3
      • For Ivana--1.20
      • Outer Providence--1.20
      • Those--1.20, 3.21
      • Under the Swallows--1.20
    • But Peter Watson Wasn't--1.2
    • By accepting, by inviting, by surmounting--8.3
    • By the River--12.6 [Tonight I watch the moon swimming...]
  • - C -
    • Cadet-Picture of Rilke's Father (H 97)--8.1, 9.2
      • Ostreich: Cadet-Picture of Rainer Maria Rilke's Father--7.10
      • Picture of Rilke's Father as a Cadet--8.1
      • Rilke, and a Cadet-Picture of his Father--8.1
      • Rilke, his Photograph of his Father--8.1
      • Rilke, his Picture of his Father--8.1
      • Rilke, the Cadet-Picture of his Father--8.1
      • Young Photograph of Rilke's Father--8.1
      • Young Picture of Rilke's Father--8.1
    • Caligula (N1-104, N2-104, N3-176)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Caligula 1 (H 47)--7.12
    • Caligula 2 (H 48)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.5
    • Calling 1970 (N3-235)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Calling--5.2
    • Calling Home--5.2
    • Can a plucked Bird Live? (H 148)--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 10.3, 10.6
    • Can a Plucked Bird Live? (N3-184; formerly Violence)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Candlelight Lunchdate (H 168)--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 10.1, 10.6
    • Candlelight Lunchdate (N3-86)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Canterbury (H 59)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.4, 10.5
    • Canterbury (N1-64, N2-64, N3-108)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Caracas (N1-26, 28, N2-26, 28)--None
    • Caracas I (N3-53)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Caracas II (N3-55)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Caracas I (H 145)--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 9.5, 10.3, 10.6
      • Carcas [sic]--9.5
    • Caracas 2 (H 146)--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 10.3, 10.6
    • Cardboard houses reach a higher level...--8.4
    • Cardboard Houses--1.2
    • Cardboard Houses--4.3, 5.4, 5.6, 5.7, 5.10
    • Cardboard Houses--12.6 [The high fall deadwood, deadwood. Zeno loved the One...]
    • Careless Night (D 62, SP 234)--4.9, 6.4
      • Keeping the Sheep--4.9
      • Sheep-Hearding--4.9
      • Sheep-Watching--4.9
      • This Night--4.9
    • Caroline (D 25): See 1. Flashback to Washington Square 1966; 2. Fragility; 3. July-August; 4. Marriage?; 5. Morning Blue
    • Caroline in Sickness (DBD 104)--3.3, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, 13.1, 13.3
    • Cars, Walking, Etc., An Unmailed Letter (D 71)--4.1, 5.2, 5.11, 6.4
      • Cars and Walking--5.2
    • Cassandra 1 (H 32)--7.11, 8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.5
    • Cassandra 2 (H 33)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.5
      • Another Friend--9.4
    • Castine 1860 (N3-245)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Castine Harbour (N1-144, N2-144, N3-245)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Cattle (N1-143, N2-143, N3-241)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Catullus, poem 76--1.2
    • Cawing colony of jackdaws..., The--1.3
    • Chairs (N3-128)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Charles River 1-4, The (FL&H 18)--7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.8, 10.6
    • Charles River, 1-7 (N1-36, N2-36)--None
    • Charles River, 1-8 (N3-66)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Charles River--13.3
    • Charles Russell Lowell: 1835-1864 (N1-28, N2-28, N3-55)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Charles V by Titian (H 63, SP 162)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.5
    • Charles V by Titian (N1-99, N2-99, N3-166)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Chatham--1.1
    • Che Guevara (H 145)--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 9.5, 10.3, 10.6, 14.7
    • Che Guevara (N1-26, N2-26, N3-53)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Chienlit (N3-186; formerly De Gaulle)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Child-Pastel of Adrienne Rich (H 154)--7.10, 8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 10.4
      • For Adrienne Rich--10.3, 10.6
    • Children read in the flowery grass..., The--4.3
    • Choice, The--4.7
    • Christ, may I die tonight...--14.7
    • Christians (H 74, SP 237)--7.13, 8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.4, 10.5
    • Christians (N3-243)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Christmas (D 77)--4.1, 5.3, 6.4
      • Christmas 1970--5.3, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 6.3, 7.1, 9.5
    • Christmas and New Year (N1-54, N2-54): See 1. Snake; 2. Christmas Tree; 3. The Dialogue; 4. Playing Ball with the Critic; 5. George H. and George E. Lewes; 6. The Book of Wisdom; 7. Descendant; 8. Bird
    • Christmas and New Year (N3-95): See 1. Snake; 2. Christmas Tree; 3. The Dialogue; 4. Playing Ball with the Critic; 5. George H. and George E. Lewes; 6. The Book of Wisdom; 7. Trout; 8. Descendant; 9. Bird; 10. Serpent
    • Christmas Tree (FL&H 24, SP 207)--7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.8, 7.10, 10.6
    • Christmas Tree (N1-54, N2-54, N3-95)--8.2, 11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Churchill--4.1
    • Churchill 1970 Retrospective (H 189)
      • Churchill in 1970--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 9.5, 10.6
      • Churchill Retrospective--5.5, 5.6
      • Churchill, a Retrospective--8.4
      • Churchill--8.4
      • Churchill: 1970--7.10, 8.4
      • In the Gallery--9.5
    • Cicero, the Sacrificial Killing (H 44, SP 156)
      • Assissination [sic] of Cicero--7.10
      • Republic froze and fattened its high ranks..., The--7.12
      • Sacrificial Killing--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.5
    • Circles (FL&H 36): See Walk to the Barn, Das ewig Weibliche, Our Twentieth Wedding Anniversary 1, Our Twentieth Wedding Anniversary 2, The Human Condition, The Hard Way, Words for Muffin, a Guinea Pig, Heat
    • Circles (N1-129, N2-129): See 1. Homing; 2. The Hard Way; 3. Das Ewig Weibliche; 4. Sound Mind, Sound Body; 5. Penelope; 6. Struggle of Non-Existence; 7. The Spock, Etc., Sentences; 8. The Good Life; 9. Night Worms; 10. The Vogue, The Vague; 11. High Blood; 12. The Lost Tune; 13. Heat
    • Circles (N3-215): See 1. Homing; 2. The Hard Way; 3. Das Ewig Weibliche; 4. Sound Mind, Sound Body; 5. Penelope; 6. Struggle of Non-Existence; 7. The Spock, Etc., Sentences; 8. The Good Life; 9. Trunks; 10. The Vague, The Vogue; 11. For Archie Smith; 12. The Revolution; 13. Youth; 14. River Harbour; 15. Shipwreck Party; 16. Playing the Archduke Trio; 17. High Blood; 18. The Lost Tune; 19. Death and the Maiden; 20. Heat
    • Civilization (N1-115, N2-115, N3-192)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Cleopatra Topless (H 46)--8.6, 9.1, 9.2, 10.4
      • Cleopatra--9.4 [Such clouds, rainbows, pink rainstorms, bright green hills...]
      • Topless in Alexandria--7.12
      • Topless--8.6, 8.8, 9.4, 10.5
    • Cloche Felée--4.3, 5.10, 6.9
    • Close the Book (N1-152, N2-152, N3-256)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Closed Sky (D 44)--4.1, 4.6, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11, 5.13, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
    • Closing (N3-256): See 1. Close the Book; 2 Out of the Picture
    • Clytemnestra (N1-97, N2-97, N3-163)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Clytemnestra 1 (H 34)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.5
    • Clytemnestra 2 (H 34)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.5
      • House in Argos, The--9.4
      • Next Dream, The--9.4
    • Clytemnestra 3 (H 35)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.4, 10.5
    • Coeur Simple--1.2
    • Coleridge (H 81, SP 168)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2
      • City Spring--8.6, 8.8, 10.1, 10.4, 10.5
    • Coleridge and King Richard (N3-169)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Coleridge and Richard II (H 59, SP 160)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.4, 10.5
    • Colonel Charles Russell Lowell 1835-64 (H 88)--8.6, 9.2
      • Charles Russell Lowell 1835-64--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 10.2, 10.5
    • Come the Revolution, a Vision--1.2
    • Communication (D 33)--4.5, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.8, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11, 5.12, 5.13, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
    • Condition Humaine, La (N1-141, N2-141, N3-239)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Couple, The (D 50, SP 231)--4.5, 4.7, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.9, 5.11, 5.13, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
      • Concurrence--4.7, 5.10
      • Twice in the past two weeks I think I met...--4.5
    • Cow (H 61)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.5
    • Cows (N1-79, N2-79, N3-131)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Cracked Pitcher, The--1.2
    • Cranach's Man-Hunt (H 63)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.5
    • Cranach's Man-Hunt (N1-84, N2-84, N3-141)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Critic (D 43)--4.6, 4.7, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.9, 5.11, 5.13, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
      • More Doubts--4.6, 5.10
      • To my critic--4.6
      • Ways of Vacillation--5.2
    • Critic, The--4.9
    • Critics have to keep flying at their author...--13.1
    • Customs House, The--1.2
    • Cygne, Le (N1-80, N2-80, N3-133)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
  • - D -
    • Daily--1.3
    • Dalliance (N1-91, N2-91, N3-152)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Dames du Temps jadis (H 60, SP 159)--7.13, 9.2
    • Dante 1 (H 56)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.4, 10.5
    • Dante 2 (H 57)--7.13, 8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.4, 10.5
    • Dante 3. Buonconte (H 57, SP 159)--None
      • Buonconte in Purgatory--7.13, 9.2, 10.4
    • Dante 4. Paolo and Francesca (H 58)--7.13, 8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.4, 10.5
      • Moment, A--9.4
      • Paolo and Francesca in Hell--9.2, 10.4
    • Dante 5. Wind (H 58)--7.13, 8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.4, 10.5
    • Danville--1.1
    • Das Ewig Weibliche (FL&H 36, SP 209)--7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.8, 10.6
    • Das Ewig Weibliche (N1-130, N2-130, N3-216)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Daughter--4.5
    • Dawn (H 25)--7.11, 8.8, 9.1, 9.4, 10.4, 10.5
    • Dawn (N3-92)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Day (D 51)--4.7, 5.11, 6.4
      • Alba--4.7, 5.10
      • Dawn--4.7, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.9, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
    • Day and night--1.3
    • Day Before Flying to Ireland--12.6 [An enlarged heart and two wives...]
    • Day-Night-Mare--4.3
    • Day of Atonement, The--1.2
    • Day, The (DBD 53)--2.4, 3.21, 3.22, 13.1 [in Semester Composition notebook]
      • Day By Day--2.4, 3.20, 13.3
      • Ending--2.4
    • De Gaulle (N1-111, N2-111)--None
    • De Gaulle est Mort (H 190)--4.5, 5.5, 5.6, 5.10, 7.10, 8.3, 8.4, 8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 9.5, 10.6
    • De Gaulle's Chienlit (H 190)--9.1, 9.3
      • Chienlit--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.5, 10.6
      • De Gaulle: Chienlit--7.10
    • Dea Roma--14.1
    • Dead Ladies--7.13, 8.2
    • Dear Sorrow (N3-142)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Dear Sorrow 1 (FL&H 25)--7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 10.6
      • In the Family--7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 10.6
    • Dear Sorrow 2 (FL&H 26)--7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 10.6
    • Dear Sorrow 3 (FL&H 26, SP 207)--7.1, 7.2, 7.5, 7.7, 7.8
    • Dear Sorrow 4 (FL&H 27)--7.1, 7.2, 7.8
      • Day--7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.6, 10.6
    • Death--4.1
    • Death (N3-125)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Death and the Bridge (H 205, SP 177)--8.5, 8.9, 9.3, 9.5, 10.6
    • Death and the Bridge (N3-141)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Death and the Maiden (D 75)--4.1, 5.3, 6.4
      • Flower--5.3
    • Death and the Maiden (H 82)--8.6, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.4, 10.5
    • Death and the Maiden (N3-224)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Death of a Critic (DBD 46)--1.4, 2.2, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, 13.3
      • Critic, a Natural Death, The--2.2, 3.20
      • For a Natural Death--2.2
      • For Someone's Natural Death--2.2
      • Natural Death of a Critic--2.2
      • Natural Death, A--2.2
      • Old Men--2.2
      • Professionals, The--2.2, 3.21
      • Survival--2.2
    • Death of Alexander (H 40, SP 154)--7.10, 8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.5
    • Death of Alexander, The (N3-164)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Death of Anne Boleyn (H 62, SP 161)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.5
    • Death of Count Roland (H 54, SP 158)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.5
    • Death of Count Roland, The (N1-97, N2-97, N3-163)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Death from Cancer on Easter--14.1
    • Death, the Rich City--1.2
    • December in Florence--13.3 [by Josef Brodsky, adapted by Lowell]
    • December--4.8, 4.9
    • Decomposure--13.1
    • Departure (DBD 17)--1.4, 1.9, 3.20, 3.22, 13.1, 13.3
      • Intermissa--1.9, 3.20
      • Waiting Out the Storm--1.9, 3.20
    • Descendant (N1-57, N2-57, N3-98)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Deutschland über Alles (H 129)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.3, 10.3, 10.5
    • Deutschland über Alles (N1-30, N2-30, N3-58)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Devil like an octogenarian has survived..., The--1.1
    • Diagnosis: to Caroline in Scotland (D 19)--4.2, 5.4, 5.9, 5.11, 5.12, 5.13, 6.1, 6.2, 6.4
      • Diagnosis (to C. in the Hebrides)--4.2
      • Diagnosis--4.1, 4.2, 5.4, 5.6, 5.7
      • Diagnosis: a Letter to Caroline away in Scotland--4.2
      • Diagnosis: a Letter to Caroline in Scotland--6.3
    • Dialogue (N1-55, N2-55, N3-96)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Dialogue, The (N1-92, N2-92, N3-153)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Diamond Cutters (H 167)--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 10.1, 10.6
    • Diamond Cutters, The (N1-115, N2-115, N3-193)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Die Forelle (H 83)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.5
      • Trout--10.1
    • Die Gold Orangen (FL&H 35)--7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 10.6
    • Die Gold-Orangen (N1-126, N2-126, N3-209)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Dies Irae--4.1
    • Dies Irae (H 74)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.5
    • Dies Irae, A Hope (N1-150, N2-150, N3-253)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
      • Dies Irae, A Hope--10.1
    • Diffugere Nives--3.20, 13.1
    • Digressions from Larkin's 20th-Century Verse ( Encounter, 1973)--1.2
    • Dispossession (H 99)--9.2, 10.4
      • Ease--10.2, 10.4
      • Ease and Peace--8.6, 8.8, 10.4
    • Dissenting Academy (H 170)--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 10.1, 10.4, 10.6
    • Dissenting Academy, The (N1-112, N2-112, N3-188)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Do more things lightly, you used to tease me... --13.1
    • Doctor, The (N1-113, N2-113, N3-189)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Doctors use an exact language...--1.1
    • Dolphin (D 78, SP 238)--4.1, 5.3, 5.9, 6.3, 6.4, 13.1
      • Comment--5.3
      • End--5.3
      • Fishnet--5.3, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8
    • Dolphin of genius lifting up its snout..., A--5.3
    • Dolphins (D 63)--4.9, 6.4, 7.12
      • Cowlicks--4.9
    • Domesday Book (DBD 54)--1.4, 2.5, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, 13.3
      • Domesday--2.5
      • Doomsday Book--2.5
      • Doomsday--2.5
      • House--2.5
      • In the Domesday Book--2.5
      • Nulle Terre Sans Seigneur--2.5
      • Story, a Dream--2.5
    • Donkey--11.1 [On this blank page, no worse, not yet defiled...]
    • Dora Markus I--1.3
    • Dora Markus 2--1.3
    • Double-Vision (D 22)--4.1, 4.3, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.9, 5.11, 5.12, 5.13, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
      • Double-Shadow--5.5, 5.7
      • Shades and Shadows--5.10
      • Shades--4.3
      • Shadings--4.3, 8.5
      • Shadows--4.3
      • Stand-in, The--4.3
    • Doubt--4.1
    • Doubt (D 42): See 1. Draw; 2. Pointing the Horns of the Dilemma; 3. Critic
    • Down the Nile (H 37)--7.10, 8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.5
      • Nile, The--7.10
    • Downlook, The (DBD 125)--3.14, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, 13.3
      • Domesday Book--1.4, 3.14
    • Draw (D 42)--4.6, 5.4, 5.9, 5.11, 5.13, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 8.1
      • Cards--4.6
      • Choice--4.6
      • Consideration--1.2, 4.6, 8.4
      • Lead--5.5, 5.6, 5.7
      • Vacillation--4.6
    • Dream (D 34)--4.5, 5.4, 6.4
      • Dream of the Goiterband--4.1, 5.11, 6.1, 6.2
      • Goiterband, a Vision--5.12
      • Hunt, The--5.4, 5.9, 5.13, 6.3
    • Dream of Fair Ladies (H 125)--8.6, 9.1, 9.3, 9.5, 10.3, 10.5
      • Dream of Fair Women--9.5
    • Dream of Leak and Terra-Cotta (H 165)--8.9
      • Leak in Terra Cotta Dream--9.3
      • Leak, a Dream, The--8.9, 10.1, 10.6
      • Terra Cotta Dream--8.9, 9.1
    • Dream of the Fair Women (N1-15, N2-15, N3-39)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Dream more than life is solid..., A--1.1
    • Dream, the Republican Convention (H 176)--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 10.6
      • August--9.5
      • Republican Convention--9.5
    • Dropout (N3-188)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Dropping South: Brazil--1.2
    • Drunk--1.2
    • Duc de Guise (H 65)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.1, 10.5
    • During a Transatlantic Call (D 47)--4.7, 5.11, 6.1, 6.2, 6.4
      • Calling--4.7
      • Trans-Atlantic Call-4.7, 5.10
      • Transatlantic Call--4.1, 5.2, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.8, 5.9, 5.13, 6.3
  • - E -
    • Ear of Corn (DBD 42)--1.21, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, 13.3
      • Above the Salt--1.21
      • At Dinner--1.21
      • At Table--1.21
      • Don Giovanni Dines--1.21
      • Triumph of Life, The--1.21
      • Two Lives--1.21
    • Eating Out Alone (H 180)--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 9.5, 10.4, 10.6
    • Eating, drinking, talking games and fishing...--4.3
    • Eel, The--6.5
    • Eight Months Later (FL&H 35, SP 200)--7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 10.6
    • Eight Months Later (N1-126, N2-126, N3-209)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Eight Months Later (FL&H 35): See 1. Eight Months Later; 2. Die Gold Orangen
    • Eight Months Later (N1-126, N2-236): See 1. Eight Months Later; 2. Die Gold Orangen
    • Eight Months Later (N3-209): See 1. Eight Months Later; 2. Die Gold-Orangen; 3. Volveran
    • Election Night (H 178)--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 9.5, 10.6
      • November 6--9.5
    • Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in New York (H 167)--7.10, 8.3, 8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 10.1, 10.4, 10.6
      • New York (After Elisabeth Schwarzkopf)--9.1
    • Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in New York (N1--68, N2-68, N3-113)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Elizabeth (FL&H 14, SP 204)--7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 10.6
    • Elizabeth Hardwick--7.10
    • Eloges to the Spirits (N1-106, N2-106, N3-179): See 1. Revenants; 2. Verdun; 3. Hydrotherapy; 4. Words for a Guinea-Pig
    • Eloise and Abelard (H 55)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.5
      • Doctor, The--9.4
    • Empress Messalina's last Bridegroom (H 48)--9.2
      • Messalina's last Bridegroom--7.12, 7.14
    • Emptying the Mind--6.5
    • End of a Year (H 207)--8.9, 9.5, 10.6
      • New Year's Eve 1968--9.5
    • End of Camp Alamoosook (FL&H 40, SP 211)--7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 10.6
    • End of Camp Alamoosook (N1-142, N2-142, N3-239)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • End of the Phone--5.2
    • End of the Saga (H 54)--7.10, 8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.5
    • End of the Saga (N1-30, N2-30, N3-58)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • End, The (N2, N3): See 1. Dies Irae, A Hope; 2. On the Border
    • Endings (DBD 49)--1.4, 2.3, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, 13.3
      • For Cousin Harriet--2.3
    • England/Scotland/Ireland in better days...--13.1
    • English-Speaking World (H 188)--8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 9.5, 10.4, 10.6
      • England--8.4
      • They--8.3, 8.4
    • Epilogue (DBD 127)--3.16, 3.20, 3.21, 3.22, 13.1, 13.3
      • Fact--3.16
      • Facts--3.16
      • Ghost, The--3.16
      • Preface--3.16
      • Sometimes in Dreams--3.16
      • Stars--3.16
    • Essex University--5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 7.14
    • Europa (N1-90, N2-90, N3-151)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Even at 12, a difference...--1.1
    • Even Such (N1-93, N2-93, N3-154)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Even the frauds must fear they're fraudulent...--4.4
    • Evening with Levi-Straus and Francis Bacon--5.10
    • Every so often, Napoleon's Old Guard...--5.3
    • Execution I (H 64)
      • Chidiock Tichborne 1568-86--10.5
      • Chidiock Tichborne--10.1
      • Growing in Favor--10.1
      • I Saw the World 1--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2
    • Execution 2 (H 64)
      • I Saw the World 2--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2
      • Last Summer--10.1
      • Last Summer--10.5
    • Executions begin at 10 PM..., The--1.3
    • Executions--6.5, 14.7
    • Exile's Return, The--1.3, 3.23, 6.5
    • Exorcism 1-2 (D 48, SP 230)--4.1, 4.2, 4.7, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11, 5.13, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4
    • Ezra Pound (H 140)--7.10, 8.7, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 10.3, 10.4, 10.6
    • Ezra Pound (N1-71, N2-71, N3-119)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
  • - F -
    • F. O. Matthiessen 1902-50 (H 134)--7.10, 8.7, 8.9, 9.3, 10.3, 10.6
    • F. O. Matthiessen: 1902-1950 (N1-101, N2-101, N3-172)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Face clean-shaven beardless..., A--13.1 [in Semester Composition notebook]
    • Face I never see except when shaving..., The--13.1 [in Semester Composition notebook]
    • Facing Oneself (D 68)--4.1, 5.2, 5.11, 6.4
    • Fall Weekend at Milgate 1-3 (D 29, SP 224)--4.1, 4.4, 5.4, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.9, 5.10, 5.11, 5.12, 5.13, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3, 6.4, 8.3
      • Autumn Weekend at Milgate--4.4
      • Day-Mirror--4.4
      • Huge Leaves of Autumn--4.4
      • Leaving--4.4
      • Wall-Mirror--4.4, 4.8
    • Fame (H 52)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 9.4, 10.5
    • Fame (N1-82, N2-82, N3-139)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Familiar Quotations (FL&H 40)--7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.8, 10.6
    • Familiar Quotations (N1-142, N2-142, N3-240)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Family Album (H 128)--7.10, 8.7, 8.8, 9.1, 9.3, 10.3, 10.5
      • Father's Album--10.3
    • Family Houses--8.8, 9.3, 10.3, 10.5 [One didn't like such houses when they stood...]
    • Fascism is too much money for what we are...--1.1
    • Father (H 113, SP 188)
      • Rebellion--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.2, 10.4, 10.5
    • Father in a Dream (H 116, SP 191)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.2, 10.4, 10.5
    • Father's Album (N3-132)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Father's House--8.8, 9.3, 10.3, 10.5 [One didn't like such houses when they stood...]
    • Fathers and Sons (N1-149, N2-149): See 1. For Michael Tate; 2. Letter from Allen Tate
    • Fathers and Sons (N3-250): See 1. Michael Tate: August 1967-July 1968; 2. Letter from Allen Tate
    • Fear in Chicago (N1-137, N2-137, N3-228)--11.5, 12.1, 12.2
    • Fears of Going Blind (H 141)--8.7, 9.1, 9.3
      • For Wyndham Lewis Going Blind--8.3, 10.3, 10.6
      • Normal Vision--5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 8.3, 10.3
      • Ordinary Vision--5.10, 8.3
      • Vision--8.3
      • Visions--8.2
    • February and March (N1-79, N2-79): See 1. Cows; 2. The Golden Middle; 3. Vigil; 4. Le Cygne; 5. Thirst; 6. Helltime; 7. Utopia for Raccoons; 8. Fame; 9. Growing in Favor, 10. Last Summer; 11. Cranach's Man-Hunt; 12. First Spring; 13. Rembrandt
    • February and March (N3-131): See 1. Cows; 2. The Golden Middle; 3. Father's Album; 4. Vigil; 5. Le Cynge; 6. Thirst; 7. The Human Race; 8. Helltime; 9. Under the Screw; 10. Oversleeping; 11. In the Family; 12. Left Out of Vacation; 13. Red and Black Brick Boston; 14. Utopia for Racoons; 15. Under the Dentist; 16. Sense of Unreality; 17. Fame; 18. Growing in Favor; 19. Keepsakes: A Dead Letter; 20. Last Summer; 21. Cranach's Man-Hunt; 22. Death and the Bridge; 23. First Spring; 24. Dear Sorrow; 25. Rembrandt
    • Festschrift (For Randall Jarrell)--13.1
    • Festschrift--13.1
    • Fetus (DBD 34)--1.17, 3.20, 3.22, 13.3
      • Cleared of Killing--1.17
      • Cleared of Murder--1.17
      • Not Cleared of Killing--1.17, 3.21
    • Fever (H 166)--8.3, 8.9, 9.1, 9.3, 10.1, 10.6
    • Finish--6.9
    • Finishing--5.10, 6.9
    • First Love (H 104, SP 181)--8.6, 8.8, 9.1, 9.2, 10.2, 10.4, 10.5
    • First rank of houses was alreadt [sic] on a higher level.