[lit-ideas] Re: Lowelliana: In search of the Vice-Admiral

  • From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 15:21:39 -0800

'Life Stories,' which I helpfully inserted in the paragraph from New
Criterion, should be 'Life Studies.'

Robert Paul

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Lawrence, in quest of a character in Robert Lowell's, '91 Revere Street,
> writes,
>
> 'I attempted to find this hero of World War II Vice-Admiral Billy Harkness 
> using
> Google and failed.  Wouldn't someone
>  like that have an article written about him some place?  Could Lowell
> have made him up?'
>
> At <
> http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-achievement-of-Robert-Lowell-1611>,
> one finds
>
> Part Two [of *Life Stories*] is a twenty-five-page prose piece, “91
> Revere Street,” which provides background and many details
>
> that could not easily be conveyed in verse. This piece has its comic and
> satirical moments—a side of Lowell not
>
> previously revealed in his writing—and has one purely fictional character,
> Billy Harkness, supposedly an Annapolis
>
> classmate of Lowell’s father.
>
>
> Robert Paul
>
> In search of lost characters
>
>
>
>
>

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