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  • Idiot,
    The
    (Dostoevsky),
    1
  • Illich, Ivan,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Imitations
    (Lowell),
    1
    ,
    2
    • critical responses to,
      1
    • as poetic vs. literal translation,
      1
    • title chosen for,
      1
  • “Inauguration Day: January 1953” (Lowell),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • “Influx of Poets, An” (Stafford),
    1
    • Lowells as models for,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
  • “In Memory of Arthur Winslow” (Lowell),
    1
    ,
    2
  • “In Praise of Diversity” (McGinley),
    1
  • Institute for Contemporary Arts,
    London
    ,
    1
  • Institute for Living,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • “Interior Castle, The” (Stafford),
    1
  • “In the Cage” (Lowell),
    1
    ,
    2
  • “In the Ward” (Lowell),
    1
  • Iowa, University of,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Irish Georgian Society,
    1
  • Isherwood, Christopher,
    1
  • James, William,
    1
  • Jarrell, Mary,
    1
  • Jarrell, Randall,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
    ,
    11
    ,
    12
    ,
    13
    ,
    14
    • on
      Benito
      Cereno,
      1
    • Berryman’s elegy for,
      1
    • death of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • difficult personality of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • on
      Land
      of
      Unlikeness,
      1
    • on
      Lord
      Weary’
      s
      Castle
      ,
      1
      ,
      2
    • as Lowell’s college roommate,
      1
    • Lowell’s correspondence with,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
      ,
      8
      ,
      9
      ,
      10
      ,
      11
      ,
      12
    • Lowell’s view of,
      1
    • in Lowell’s will,
      1
    • on meeting Pound,
      1
    • on
      Mills
      of
      the
      Kavanaughs,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • nervous breakdown of,
      1
  • Jenson, Oliver,
    1
  • John of the Cross, Saint,
    1
  • Johnson, Lady Bird,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Johnson, Lyndon B.,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    • Lowell’s letter to,
      1
    • in Lowell’s manic delusions,
      1
    • in Presidential primaries (1968),
      1
      ,
      2
    • in Vietnam War,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
    • “Waking Early Sunday Morning” and,
      1
      ,
      2
    • in White House Festival of the Arts,
      1
    • Yale’s NEA grant and,
      1
  • “Jonah” (Lowell),
    1
    “Jonathan Edwards in Western
    Massachusetts
    ” (Lowell),
    2
  • Joyce, James,
    1
  • Jung, Carl,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Justice, Department of,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Juvenal, Lowell’s translated version of,
    1
  • Kalstone, David,
    1
  • Kant, Immanuel,
    1
  • Kay, George,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Kazin, Alfred,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Kennedy, Jacqueline,
    1
    • Lowell’s friendship with,
      1
      ,
      2
    • in Robert Kennedy’s Presidential bid (1968),
      1
  • Kennedy, John F.,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    • inauguration of,
      1
    • at Malraux dinner,
      1
  • Kennedy, Robert F.:
    • assassination of,
      1
    • personality of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • Presidential bid of (1968),
      1
  • Kenyon College,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    • Douglass House of,
      1
  • Kenyon
    Review,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
    ,
    11
  • Kenyon School of Letters,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Kermode, Frank,
    1
  • Kettering Foundation,
    1
  • Kirstein, Lincoln,
    1
  • Kissinger, Henry,
    1
  • Kittredge, Fanny,
    1
  • Kunitz, Stanley,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    • on
      Dolphin,
      1
  • Labe, Louis,
    1
  • Laforgue, Jules,
    1
  • Land
    of
    Unlikeness
    (Lowell),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    • critical responses to,
      1
      ,
      2
  • Lanier, Sidney,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Larkin, Philip,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    • on
      Life
      Studies,
      1
    • poetic style of,
      1
  • Larner, Jeremy,
    1
  • “Last Walk?” (Lowell),
    1
  • Laughlin, James,
    1
  • Law, William,
    1
  • Leopardi, Giacomo, Lowell’s translated version of,
    1
  • “Lesson, The” (Lowell),
    1
  • “Leviathan” (Lowell),
    1
  • Lewis, Cecil Day,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Lewis, R. W. B.,
    1
  • Lewis, Wyndham,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Library of Congress, Poetry Consultant position at,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Life
    magazine,
    1
  • Life
    Studies
    (Lowell),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    ,
    9
    ,
    10
    ,
    11
    • critical responses to,
      1
    • inconsistency of style in,
      1
    • as innovative,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • National Book Award won for,
      1
    • royalties from,
      1
    • structure of,
      1
    • Thompson on,
      1
    • Williams on,
      1
  • “Life Studies” (Lowell),
    1
  • Lincoln, Abraham,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Lipton, Lawrence,
    1
  • lithium carbonate,
    1
  • London
    Magazine,
    1
    ,
    2
  • London
    Observer,
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • London
    Times,
    1
    ,
    2
  • “Loneliness” (Lowell),
    1
  • Lord
    Weary

    s
    Castle
    (Lowell),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    ,
    7
    ,
    8
    • critical responses to,
      1
    • Jarrell on,
      1
    • poetic style refined in,
      1
    • publication of,
      1
    • Ransom on,
      1
    • translated poetry in,
      1
  • Louisiana State University,
    1
  • Lowell, A. Lawrence (cousin),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    • Robert’s correspondence with,
      1
    • in Sacco and Vanzetti conviction,
      1
  • Lowell, Alfred Putnam (cousin),
    1
    ,
    2
  • Lowell, Amy,
    1
  • Lowell, Charlotte Winslow (mother),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    • courtship and marriage of,
      1
    • Dawson as viewed by,
      1
      ,
      2
    • death of,
      1
    • Dick as viewed by,
      1
      ,
      2
    • Hardwick’s correspondence with,
      1
      ,
      2
    • husband’s death and,
      1
    • marital discontents of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • as Moore’s assistant,
      1
      ,
      2
    • Moore’s correspondence with,
      1
      ,
      2
    • Moore’s relationship with,
      1
      ,
      2
    • pregnancy of,
      1
    • psychotherapy as viewed by,
      1
    • in Rapallo,
      1
    • Robert’s breakdowns and,
      1
      ,
      2
    • Robert’s car accident and,
      1
    • in Robert’s childhood
      religiosexuality
      ,
      1
    • Robert’s correspondence with,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
      ,
      8
      ,
      9
      ,
      10
      ,
      11
      ,
      12
    • Robert’s draft evasion and,
      1
    • in Robert’s will,
      1
    • Stafford as viewed by,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
  • Lowell, Cornelius (ancestor),
    1
  • Lowell, Guy (ancestor),
    1
  • Lowell, Harriet (ancestor),
    1
  • Lowell, Harriet Winslow (daughter),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    • birth of,
      1
    • early childhood of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
    • Lowell’s correspondence with,
      1
      ,
      2
    • parents’ separation and,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
      ,
      8
  • Lowell, James,
    1
  • Lowell, James Russell (ancestor),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
  • Lowell, Percival,
    1
    ,
    2
  • Lowell, Rebecca (ancestor),
    1
  • Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, I (
    great-grandfather
    ),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
  • Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, III (
    father
    ),
    1
    ,
    2
    ,
    3
    ,
    4
    ,
    5
    ,
    6
    • background of,
      1
    • courtship and marriage of,
      1
    • death of,
      1
    • Dick as viewed by,
      1
    • Hardwick as viewed by,
      1
      ,
      2
    • hostility to Robert of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • ill health of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • money as viewed by,
      1
    • Moore’s view of,
      1
    • naval career of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • Robert as viewed by,
      1
      ,
      2
    • Robert’s attack on,
      1
    • Robert’s car accident and,
      1
    • Robert’s correspondence with,
      1
    • on Robert’s psychotherapy,
      1
    • Stafford as viewed by,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • will of,
      1
  • Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, IV:
    • American Academy of Arts and
      Letters
      awards to,
      1
      ,
      2
    • autobiographical writings of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
      ,
      8
      ,
      9
      ,
      10
      ,
      11
      ,
      12
      ,
      13
    • “bear-characters” of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
    • in Boston Psychopathic Hospital,
      1
      ,
      2
    • at Brimmer School,
      1
    • Caligula/Caliban nickname of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • car accident of,
      1
    • Catholic conversion of,
      1
    • Catholicism abandoned by,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • Catholicism as viewed by,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
    • childhood belligerence of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • children as viewed by,
      1
    • children of,
      see
      Lowell, Harriet Winslow; Lowell, Sheridan
    • as college football player,
      1
    • in Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital,
      1
    • Communism as viewed by,
      1
      ,
      2
    • on conformity,
      1
    • on “cooked” vs. “raw” poetry,
      1
    • critical pieces by,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
    • death of,
      1
    • depressions of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
    • diagnoses of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
    • divorces of,
      see
      Hardwick, Elizabeth; Stafford, Jean
    • dolphin obsession of,
      1
    • draft evasion of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • dramatizations by,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
    • drinking of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
      ,
      8
      ,
      9
      ,
      10
      ,
      11
      ,
      12
      ,
      13
      ,
      14
    • drug therapy of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
      ,
      8
      ,
      9
      ,
      10
      ,
      11
      ,
      12
    • Duxbury house of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
    • early childhood of,
      1
    • early poetic style of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • early publications of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • engagements of,
      see
      Buckman,
      Gertrude
      ; Dawson, Carley; Dick, Anne Tuckerman; Hardwick, Elizabeth; Madonia, Giovanna; Stafford, Jean
    • “enthusiasm” of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • Episcopalian Church rejoined by,
      1
    • eschatological viewpoint of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • European sojourn of,
      1
    • family origins explored by,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • father’s death and,
      1
    • first published poem of,
      1
    • Ford Foundation grant to,
      1
    • as Ford’s secretary,
      1
    • on God,
      1
    • in Greenways Nursing Home,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
    • Guggenheim fellowship awarded to,
      1
    • Guinness Poetry Prize won by,
      1
    • at Harvard,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
      ,
      8
      ,
      9
      ,
      10
      .
      11
      ,
      12
    • Harvard fellowship sought by,
      1
    • heart illness of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
    • Hitler fixation of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
    • Hollywood offers to,
      1
    • in Institute for Living,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
    • intellectual awakening of,
      1
    • in Israel,
      1
    • jail term of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • in Jewish Hospital,
      1
    • at Kenyon College,
      1
      ,
      2
    • in Kreuzlingen sanatorium,
      1
    • at Library of Congress,
      1
      ,
      2
    • love poems of,
      1
    • at LSU,
      1
    • in McCarthy’s Presidential bid (1968),
      1
      ,
      2
    • in McLean Hospital,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
    • marriages of,
      see
      Blackwood, Lady Caroline; Hardwick, Elizabeth; Stafford, Jean
    • in Massachusetts General Hospital,
      1
    • in Mexico,
      1
    • on mis-spelling,
      1
    • as model for “An Influx of Poets,”
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
    • as model for
      Crystal
      Sepulcher,
      1
    • as model for “Home Front,”
      1
    • as model for “1939,”
      1
    • mother’s death and,
      1
      ,
      2
    • in Munich hospital,
      1
    • musical interests of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
    • Nantucket retreat of (1935),
      1
      ,
      2
    • Nantucket retreat of (1936),
      1
    • National Book Award address of,
      1
    • nervous breakdowns of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
      ,
      8
      ,
      9
      ,
      10
      ,
      11
      ,
      12
      ,
      13
    • at New School,
      1
    • on nuclear warfare,
      1
    • Obie award won by,
      1
    • order craved by,
      1
    • parents recollected by,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
    • in Payne Whitney,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
    • poetic meter considered by,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
    • poetic style of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
      ,
      8
      ,
      9
      ,
      10
      ,
      11
      ,
      12
    • on poetic translations,
      1
    • on poetry,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
    • political poetry of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • political views of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
      ,
      8
    • post-conversion remarriage of,
      1
    • in Pound affair,
      1
    • in Priory Hospital,
      1
    • prose period of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • psychotic episode described by,
      1
      ,
      2
    • as public speaker,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • Pulitzer Prize won by,
      1
    • “reconversion” of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • recuperative periods of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
      ,
      8
    • religion vs. sexuality in,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
    • religious mania of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • in return to Boston,
      1
    • at Rivers school,
      1
    • in St. Andrews Hospital,
      1
    • at St. Mark’s school,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • in Salzburg,
      1
    • sexual initiation of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • slovenliness of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • sonnets of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
    • in South America,
      1
    • Southern sojourn of,
      1
      ,
      2
    • teaching methods of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • theatrical interests of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
    • at University of Cincinnati,
      1
      ,
      2
    • at University of Iowa,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • valedictory address of,
      1
    • as “victim hero,”
      1
    • violence of,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
    • war as viewed by,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
      ,
      4
      ,
      5
      ,
      6
      ,
      7
      ,
      8
    • will drafted by,
      1
    • on women,
      1
      ,
      2
      ,
      3
    • in Yaddo affair,
      1
      ,
      2
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