The letters of Robert Lowell

"I Was Naked Without My Line-Ends"

1936-1940

Education at Harvard and Kenyon Colleges

Marriage to Jean Stafford

1940-1946

Writing of Land of Unlikeness and Lord Weary's Castle

Imprisonment for refusing military induction

1946-1949

Separation from Stafford

Writing of The Mills of the Kavanaughs

1949-1954

Preparation of Poems 1938-1949

Marriage to Elizabeth Hardwick

1954-1959

Writing of Life Studies and Imitations

Birth of Harriet Lowell

1959-1966

Writing of Imitations, The Old Glory, Phaedra, For the Union Dead, and Near the Ocean

1967-1970

Writing of Notebook 1967-68

1970-1977

Writing of the Dolphin and Day by Day

Separation from Hardwick

Birth of Sheridan Lowell

Marriage to Caroline Blackwood

Lowell's Addresses

Location of Letters and Manuscripts.