Overview
The correspondence between one of the most famous couples of twentieth-century literature
The Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowellās life (1970 to 1977), a time of personal crisis and creative innovation for both writers. Centered on the letters they exchanged with each other and with other members of their circleāwriters, intellectuals, friends, and publishers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Caroline Blackwood, Mary McCarthy, and Adrienne Richāthe book has the narrative sweep of a novel, telling the story of the dramatic breakup of their twenty-one-year marriage and their extraordinary, but late, reconciliation.
Lowellās controversial sonnet-sequence The Dolphin (for which he used Hardwickās letters as a source) and his last book, Day by Day, were written during this period, as were Hardwickās influential books Seduction and Betrayal: Essays on Women in Literature and Sleepless Nights: A Novel. Lowell and Hardwick are acutely intelligent observers of marriages, children, and friends, and of the feelings that their personal crises gave rise to.
The Dolphin Letters, masterfully edited by Saskia Hamilton, is a debate about the limits of artāwhat occasions a work of art, what moral and artistic license artists have to make use of their lives as material, what formal innovations such debates give rise to. The crisis of Lowellās The Dolphin was profoundly affecting to everyone surrounding him, and Bishopās warning to Lowellāāart just isnāt worth that muchāāhaunts.
This book title, The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979 (Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle) - 9780374539153, ISBN: 9780374539153, by Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, Saskia Hamilton, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (December 1, 2020) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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