Presents a selection of more than two hundred works culled from the acclaimed poet's books of verse, including Lord Weary's Castle, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, Life Studies, For the Union Dead, Near the Ocean, and others. Original.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1858 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XLII. A MIRACLE. E left judicial matters at Bay-Harbor just at the point where the judge, having had both Mr. Bangs and Ladford at his lodgings, had determined to grant a warrant. There is always, in the public mind of a community excited for many days together,--as that of ConceptionBay, and especially of Bay-Harbor, had been,--a disposition to expect something; and the presence of Judge Bear n and the sheriff's deputy among them, just at this time, occasioned a general ferment among both Roman Catholics and Protestants. Rumors, of course, were abundant, within a few hours after their landing. It was said that a large military force was to be called out, in case of need; that the three judges were to assemble in Bay-Harbor; that five hundred special constables had been sworn in; that the Governor was coming down; that all the Protestant clergy in the Bay had publicly requested their flocks to resort to the scene of expected operations; that the Roman Catholic clergy had denounced, from the altar, the judges and officers of the law, and all who might aid or abet them. In the mean time, however, there was no appearance of extraordinary activity or occupation in the judge or deputy sheriff; no troops marched through the streets; no crowds from abroad gathered; and so the day passed by with no more serious disturbance of the peace than a rough word or so, between occasional Peterport men and others, and, before evening, the expectation of the public had much cooled. Mr. Bangs, returning in the afternoon, after several days' absence, repaired, like a dutiful disciple, to the feet of Father O'Toole, for religious instruction; slipping off (so to speak) the attire of travel and trade, and putting on the garb of meek and lowly scholarship. Some ripples of ...

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The first full collection of Robert Lowell's work introduces readers to the literary genius of the nation's most important postwar poet, including several never-before-anthologized poems, with works frorm Land of Unlikeness, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lord Weary's Castle, and Day by Day, his final book, among others. Reprint.

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Product Description: Winner of Five Obies, now back in print after fifteen years, a stage adaptation of classic stories by Hawthorne and MelvilleIn the three plays in The Old Glory--Endecott and the Red Cross; My Kinsman, Major Molineux; and Benito Cereno--the most powerful figure in postwar American poetry confronts the most haunting American fiction writers of the nineteenth century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The heir to a patrician Boston family, the instinctively rebellious Lowell fashioned an open, confessional style, using his troubled family history, broken marriages, and manicdepressive episodes as the subjects for his poems. Read by the author.

Product Description: Dramatic cantata for mezzo-soprano and small orchestra.

Product Description: A pivotal book in Robert Lowell's groundbreaking career, Notebook is, as Seamus Heaney has written, "a massive accumulation of unrhymed sonnets, poems of immeditae, unprepossessing, blunt-edged force, which record not so much the public events of [the late 1960s] as the reactions which the events provoked in Lowell's consciousness...read more

A collection of the author's prose, including writings on ancient and modern poets from Virgil to Sylvia Plath, comments on the Gettysburg Address and Hawthorne's myth of Pegasus, his extended interviews of 1961 and 1971, and autobiographical pieces

A collection of short poems and a long narrative poem explores the feelings and experiences of the author

Product Description: The last book published before the poet's death, Day by Day was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award prize for poetry in 1977 and cements Lowell's reputation as one of the great poetic voices of the century.