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From postscripts of letters written by Robert Lowell to his daughter Harriet, collected in The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979, which was published last year by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. cat for…

Dearest Lizzie

by Helen Vendler,

The end of a literary marriage

Poetry Slam

by Mark Edmundson,

Or, The decline of American verse

Enter a sentence of Elizabeth Bishop’s

by William H. Gass,

Revision and craft

New Books

by John Leonard,

Grace of accuracy

by Nicholas Fraser,

Robert Lowell's revealing letters

Stet

by Ron Offen,

A biographer’s second thoughts

by Ian Hamilton,

The limits of poetic license

by James Wolcott,

The more you learn about Robert Lowell's life, the less you want to read his poems

An appreciation of Robert Lowell

by Hayden Carruth,

The White House and the intellectuals

by Eric Frederick Goldman,