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Title: The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979 Condition: New Subtitle: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle Author: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0374539154 EAN: 9780374539153 ISBN: 9780374539153 Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Genre: Biography Release Date: 01/01/2021 Description: The Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowell’s life, a time of personal crisis and creative innovation for both writers. Lowell’s controversial sonnet sequence, The Dolphin (for which he used Hardwick’s letters as a source), and Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights were written during this period. Centered on the letters they exchanged with each other and with other members of their circle - writers, intellectuals, friends, and publishers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Caroline Blackwood, Mary McCarthy, and Adrienne Rich - the 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. 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 art - what 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 Lowell’s The Dolphin was profoundly affecting to everyone surrounding him, and Bishop’s warning to Lowell - “art just isn’t worth that much” - haunts. Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 228mm Item Length: 151mm Item Width: 41mm Item Weight: 792g Release Year: 2021 Missing Information?
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