The Robert Lowell Papers at the Houghton Library, Harvard University: A Guide to the Collection
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The Robert Lowell Papers at the Houghton Library, Harvard University: A Guide to the Collection
By (Author) Patrick K. Miehe
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Greenwood Press
26th November 1990
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Bibliographies, catalogues
811.52
Physical Properties
Hardback
240
Description
Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, Robert Lowell has left a prodigious literary legacy that includes several verse plays as well as numerous volumes of poetry. His private papers and other unpublished materials provide a record of a distinguished career and cast light on personal and creative issues of interest to both readers and scholars. The Robert Lowell collection at the Houghton Library at Harvard University comprises some 2916 items. These include family and literary correspondence, poetic notebooks and manuscripts covering a period of more than 25 years. This annotated guide to the collection is the product of detailed study of Lowell's work, both published and unpublished, and benefits from the poet's own review of some of the papers. Researchers may appreciate the index to the poems, which offer a key to the various drafts of each work. This book aims to be of interest to all Lowell scholars and to students of 20th-century American poetry.
Reviews
A catalogue of the nearly 3,000 items in the papers of American poet Lowell (1917-77) at the Houghton Library. The collection comprises family and literary correspondence before 1971, and literary manuscripts covering about 35 years. The index to titles indicates the various drafts of each work. Lowell manuscripts held by the Houghton Library, but not in this collection, are not listed.-Reference & Research Book News
"A catalogue of the nearly 3,000 items in the papers of American poet Lowell (1917-77) at the Houghton Library. The collection comprises family and literary correspondence before 1971, and literary manuscripts covering about 35 years. The index to titles indicates the various drafts of each work. Lowell manuscripts held by the Houghton Library, but not in this collection, are not listed."-Reference & Research Book News
Author Bio
PATRICK K. MIEHE, now a lawyer at a Boston law firm, was a compiler in the Houghton Library, Harvard University.
