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1. www.newyorker.com › magazine › 2019/12/16Marriage, Betrayal, and the Letters Behind “The Dolphin”

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   Dec 9, 2019 · “How happy we’ll be together,” Robert Lowell wrote to Elizabeth Hardwick in July, 1949, weeks before their marriage. Thirty-two years old and divorced from the writer Jean Stafford, Lowell ...

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3. yalereview.org › article › dolphin-lettersThe Yale Review | The Dolphin Letters

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   HE DOLPHIN LETTERS, 1970–1979 collects the bulk of the correspondence between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the torturous years when the writers separated, divorced, and briefly reunited, before Lowell died suddenly in 1977. A subtitle, “Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Their Circle,” is printed at the bottom of the ...

4. www.nytimes.com › 2019/12/03 › books‘The Dolphin Letters’ Shine Light on a Famous Marital and ...

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   Dec 3, 2019 · In 1970, the poet Robert Lowell took a teaching appointment at Oxford, leaving behind his wife, the critic Elizabeth Hardwick, and the couple’s 13-year-old daughter, Harriet.

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   Did Robert Lowell marry Elizabeth Hardwick?

   • Lowell mined years of epistolary drama with his wife for “The Dolphin.” Photograph by Fred W. McDarrah / Getty “How happy we’ll be together,” Robert Lowell wrote to Elizabeth Hardwick in July, 1949, weeks before their marriage.

   Marriage, Betrayal, and the Letters Behind “The Dolphin”

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   When did Robert Lowell write to Elizabeth Hardwick?

   • Photograph by Fred W. McDarrah / Getty “How happy we’ll be together,” Robert Lowell wrote to Elizabeth Hardwick in July, 1949, weeks before their marriage. Thirty-two years old and divorced from the writer Jean Stafford, Lowell was finishing a stay at Baldpate Hospital, in Massachusetts, after his first serious mental breakdown.

   Marriage, Betrayal, and the Letters Behind “The Dolphin”

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   How did Robert Lowell & Elizabeth Hardwick's correspondence lead to a scandal?

   • How the correspondence between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick gave rise to a scandal about the ethics of turning life into art. Lowell mined years of epistolary drama with his wife for “The Dolphin.” Photograph by Fred W. McDarrah / Getty

   Marriage, Betrayal, and the Letters Behind “The Dolphin”

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   What happens in Lowell & Hardwick's correspondence?

   • The assembled correspondence takes readers through the birth of Lowell and Blackwood’s son, Sheridan; Lowell and Hardwick’s divorce, in October, 1972; his immediate remarriage; Hardwick’s continuing claims of his inattentiveness toward Harriet; and the crisis brought on by the publication of “The Dolphin.”

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6. www.thenation.com › article › archiveThe Letters Behind One of American Poetry’s Most Infamous ...

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   Jan 8, 2020 · The Dolphin Letters, 1970–1979, which collects the correspondence between Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell, is an extraordinary philosophical inquiry into what is permissible in a work of art.

7. www.pulitzer.org › article › elizabeth-hardwickElizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell and 'The Dolphin' - Pulitzer

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   The reaction from the American poetry community did not forestall Lowell's second Pulitzer, which was awarded to "The Dolphin" on May 6, 1974. A jury comprised of longtime Harvard English professor (and Lowell-Hardwick colleague) William Alfred, 1949 Poetry winner Gwendolyn Brooksand 1968 Poetry winner Anthony Hechtwrestled with the ethics of ...

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9. harpers.org › archive › 2020Dearest Lizzie, by Helen Vendler - Harper’s Magazine

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   Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 224 pages. $18. I n 1970, Robert Lowell moved to England to take up a brief residence at Oxford’s All Souls College, leaving his wife, the brilliant writer Elizabeth Hardwick, and their adolescent daughter, Harriet, in New York City. To Hardwick’s increasing uneasiness and fear, he stayed on in England: eventually ...

10. academic.oup.com › litimag › article“My Eyes Have Seen What My Hand Did”: A Review of The Dolphin ...

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    Dec 31, 2020 · A reader of the almost-five-hundred-page-long correspondence between the writers Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell from 1970 until Lowell’s death in 1977 is struck by how much they take for granted the primacy of their own place in the literary community.