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A lifetime of worrying and reading may bring you at last to free trips you are not sure you wish to take. — Elizabeth Hardwick I read this for Lowell and I was mistaken. My knowledge of Hardwick extended only to her spouse. She was born less than a hundred miles from here and my ignorance is unforgivable. Friends of mine are heading towards a divorce. That bane of my childhood is engulfing yet more. More pain is being elicited. Almost a Moloch, fissures like tendrils emerge from the interstices,...
Gathered in this volume are a fascinating collection of letters between Robert Lowell and his wife Elizabeth Hardwick, plus others from their daughter, friends and acquaintances, including Elizabeth Bishop and Mary McCarthy. The letters track a particularly difficult period of 7 years in the lives of Hardwick and Lowell and constitute a searing account of love and loss, bringing to vivid life one of literary history’s most famous scandals. In 1970 poet Robert Lowell took up a teaching post at Ox...
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Elizabeth Hardwick gets her due in The Dolphin Letters. Praise to Saskia Hamilton for gathering the letters---some of which Robert Lowell used to give life to his book of poems---The Dolphin. I was fascinated by the relationship between Elizabeth H. and Robert Lowell. Reading about their marriage, his infidelity and their divorce from the vantage point of 2020, it's revealing to see how much of Hardwick's energy and creativity was spent on care and support of Lowell. All the mundane details she
The story is well-known. At the beginning of 1970 the American poet Robert Lowell, his wife and literary critic Elizabeth Hardwick, and their daughter Harriet were in Europe. Hardwick and Harriet returned home to New York City while Lowell remained in Britain to take up a teaching fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. That spring he met and began an affair with the British novelist Caroline Blackwood. Eventually, probably under the influence of one of his manic attacks which had plagued him h...
I nearly put this back on the library shelf, thinking "I'll never read this." But then I decided to trust there was a reason I'd added it to my "Books to Read" list. Painfully slow reader that I am, I finished it in two weeks and even reread the Introduction because it's essentially a summary. The book kept me engaged; one reviewer noted it reads more like a novel, and that is true. I'm very glad I took the time to meet Lowell and, especially, Hardwick. (I'm ashamed to admit they were unknown to...
