With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz & Others

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227 Notes 1 Robert Lowell, “To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage,” in Life Studies (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1959), 88. 2 Doris Drucker, Invent Radium or I’ll Pull Your Hair (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004). 3 Andrew Marvell, Thoughts in a Garden: A Golden Treasury of English Verse (New York: Hartsdale House, 1935), 127. 4 Ibid. 5 Anne Sexton, “Elegy in a Classroom,” in To Bedlam and Part Way Back (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960), 45. 6 Anne Sexton, “The Double Image,” in To Bedlam and Part Way Back (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960), 53. 7 Ibid. 8 Lowell quoted in Ian Hamilton, “Interview: Lowell in England,” Review (London) 26 (1971): 10–29. 9 Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems, ed. Ted Hughes (New York: Harper and Row, 1981). 10 Sylvia Plath, “Doomsday,” Juvenilia in The Collected Poems ed. Ted Hughes, 316. 11 Sylvia Plath, “The Manor Garden,” in The Colossus and Other Poems (New York: Knopf, 1967), 3. 12 Sylvia Plath, February 25, 1959, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, ed. Karen V. Kukil (New York: Anchor Books, 2000), 471. 13 A. Alvarez, “Sylvia Plath,” in The Art of Sylvia Plath, ed. Charles Newman (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970), 56. 14 Plath quoted in ibid., 301. 15 Ibid., 302. 16 Sylvia Plath, Ariel: The Restored Text, ed. and with a foreword by Frieda Hughes (London: Faber and Faber, 2004). 17 Robert Lowell, “Ford Maddox Ford,” in Life Studies (New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1959), 49. 18 Kathleen Spivack, Flying Inland (New York: Doubleday, 1973). 19 Elizabeth Bishop, “The Man-Moth,” in The Complete Poems (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969), 16. 20 Elizabeth Hardwick, conversation with Kathleen Spivack, 1990. 21 Anne Sexton, “The Fury of Sunrises,” in The Death Notebooks (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1974), 50. 22 Anne Sexton, “Her Kind,” in To Bedlam and Part Way Back (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960), 21. Notes 228 23 Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1964), 317. 24 Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (New York: Capricorn Books, 1958), 377. 25 Kathleen Spivack, “Straining,” in Flying Inland (New York: Doubleday, 1973), 14. 26 Peter Davison, The Fading Smile (New York: Knopf, 1994). 27 Elizabeth Bishop, “In the Village,” in Elizabeth Bishop: The Collected Prose (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1984), 251. 28 Elizabeth Bishop, “In the Waiting Room,” in Geography III: The Complete Poems, 1927–78 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976), 159. 29 Elizabeth Bishop, “Elizabeth Bishop Speaks about Her Poetry,” interview with Eileen MacMahon, 1978, in Conversations with Elizabeth Bishop, ed. George Montiero (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1996), 108. 30 Brett Millier, “Elusive Mastery: The Drafts of Elizabeth Bishop’s ‘One Art.’ The complete essay is available in New England Review (Winter 1990) and in Elizabeth Bishop: The Geography of Gender, ed. Marilyn May Lombardi (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1993). 31 Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art,” in Geography III: The Complete Poems, 1927–78 (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1976), 40. 32 Elizabeth Bishop, “Breakfast Song,” in Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts, and Fragments, ed. Alice Quinn (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006), 158. 33 Robert Lowell, “Red and Black Brick Boston,” in History (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973), 205. 34 Paul Elman, “Robert Lowell, Death of an Elfking,” Christian Century, November 16, 1977. 35 Cheryl Walker, God and Elizabeth Bishop: Meditations on Religion and Poetry (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001). 36 Kathleen Spivack, “Short Stories,” in Swimmer in the Spreading Dawn (Boston: Applewood Books, 1981), 21. 37 Frank Bidart, “California Plush,” in Golden State (New York: Doubleday, 1973), 11. 38 Robert Lowell, Robert Lowell: Collected Poems, ed. Frank Bidart and David Gewanter (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003). 39 Lowell quoted in Hamilton, “Interview.” 40 Theodore Roethke, “The Weed Puller,” in The Lost Son and Other Poems (New York: Doubleday, 1966), 39. 41 Kathleen Spivack, “Paraphrase.” Notes 229 42 Stanley Kunitz, “My Mother’s Pears,” in Stanley Kunitz: The Collected Poems (New York: W. W. Norton, 2000), 249. 43 Denise Levertov, “Hypocrite Women,” in Poems 1960–1967 (New York: New Directions, 1966). 44 John Malcolm Brinnin, Dylan Thomas in America: An Intimate Journal (Boston: Little Brown, 1955). 45 Thomas Travisano, Words in Air (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), 303. 46 James Atlas, “Robert Lowell in Cambridge: Lord Weary,” Atlantic Monthly 250...