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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 Lowells 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 circlewriters, intellectuals, friends, and publishers, including Elizabeth Bishop, Caroline Blackwood, Mary McCarthy, and Adrienne Richthe 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. Lowells controversial sonnet-sequence The Dolphin (for which he used Hardwicks letters as a source) and his last book, Day by Day , were written during this period, as were Hardwicks influential books Seduction and Essays on Women in Literature and Sleepless 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 ab

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Author

Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, Saskia Hamilton

Publisher

Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374141264

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

4.7 / 5 (41 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14