Robert Lowell papers, 1861-1977 (inclusive), 1935-1970 (bulk) | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Robert Lowell, Peter Taylor (Correspondent), Jean Stafford (Correspondent), Stephen Spender (Correspondent), W. D. Snodgrass (Correspondent), Elizabeth Bishop (Correspondent), John Berryman (Correspondent), Gertrude Buckman (Correspondent), T. S. Eliot (Correspondent), Robert W Flint (Correspondent), Elizabeth Hardwick (Correspondent), Randall Jarrell (Correspondent), Charlotte Winslow Lowell (Correspondent), Robie Macauley (Correspondent), Mary McCarthy (Correspondent), Ezra Pound (Correspondent), J. F. Powers (Correspondent), Philip Rahv (Correspondent), John Crowe Ransom (Correspondent), Adrienne Rich (Correspondent), George Santayana (Correspondent), Allen Tate (Correspondent), John Thompson (Correspondent), William Carlos Williams (Correspondent), Harriet Winslow (Correspondent)

Summary:Approximately two-thirds of the collection is compositions by Lowell. These consist of manuscripts of his poems, both published and unpublished, in various forms from heavily revised drafts to galley proofs, as well as autobiographical and miscellaneous prose. The correspondence is with other writers and family members and concerns his writing and his personal life. Major correspondents include his second wife Elizabeth Hardwick, Elizabeth Bishop, Peter Taylor, Allen Tate, and Randall Jarrell. Also includes third party correspondence, manuscripts by others, legal papers and documents, photographs, printed material, and a title index to Lowell's manuscripts in the collection