Contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Notice
  3. Introduction
  4. THE DOLPHIN (1973)
  5. Fishnet
  6. Redcliffe Square
  7. 1.  Living in London
  8. 2.  Window
  9. 3.  America from Oxford, May 1970
  10. 4.  Oxford
  11. 5.  The Serpent
  12. 6.  Symptoms
  13. 7.  Diagnosis: To Caroline in Scotland
  14. Hospital
  15. 1.  Shoes
  16. 2.  Juvenilia
  17. 3.  Rival
  18. 4.  Stairwell
  19. 5.  Walter Raleigh
  20. 6.  Double-Vision
  21. Hospital II
  22. 1.  Voices
  23. 2.  Letter
  24. 3.  Old Snapshot from Venice 1952
  25. Caroline
  26. 1.  Flashback to Washington Square 1966
  27. 2.  Fragility
  28. 3.  July-August
  29. 4.  Marriage?
  30. 5.  Morning Blue
  31. Summer Between Terms 1–2
  32. Fall Weekend at Milgate 1–3
  33. Records
  34. In Harriet’s Yearbook
  35. Communication
  36. Dream
  37. Mermaid 1–5
  38. The Mermaid Children
  39. They
  40. The Friend
  41. In the Mail
  42. Doubt
  43. 1.  Draw
  44. 2.  Pointing the Horns of the Dilemma
  45. 3.  Critic
  46. Winter and London
  47. 1.  Closed Sky
  48. 2.  At Offado’s
  49. 3.  Flounder
  50. 4.  Mastodon
  51. 5.  Freud
  52. 6.  Harriet’s Donkey
  53. During a Transatlantic Call
  54. Exorcism 1–2
  55. Plotted
  56. The Couple
  57. Before Woman
  58. 1.  Before the Dawn of Woman
  59. 2.  Day
  60. Artist’s Model 1–4
  61. Mermaid Emerging
  62. Marriage
  63. 1.  Angling
  64. 2.  Tired Iron
  65. 3.  Gruff
  66. 4.  Leaf-Lace Dress
  67. 5.  Knowing
  68. 6.  Gold Lull
  69. 7.  Green Sore
  70. 8.  Letter
  71. 9.  Heavy Breathing
  72. 10.  Late Summer at Milgate
  73. 11.  Ninth Month
  74. 12.  Question
  75. 13.  Robert Sheridan Lowell
  76. 14.  Overhanging Cloud
  77. 15.  Careless Night
  78. 16.  Morning Away from You
  79. Another Summer
  80. 1.  Wildrose
  81. 2.  Dolphins
  82. 3.  Ivana
  83. 4.  Alimony
  84. 5.  The New
  85. Leaving America for England
  86. 1.  America
  87. 2.  Lost Fish
  88. 3.  Truth
  89. 4.  No Telling
  90. 5.  Sick
  91. 6.  Facing Oneself
  92. Foxfur
  93. On the End of the Phone
  94. Cars, Walking, etc., an Unmailed Letter
  95. Flight to New York
  96. 1.  Plane-Ticket
  97. 2.  With Caroline at the Air-Terminal
  98. 3.  Purgatory
  99. 4.  Flight
  100. 5.  New York Again
  101. 6.  No Messiah
  102. 7.  Death and the Maiden
  103. 8.  New York
  104. 9.  Sleepless
  105. 10.  New York
  106. 11.  Christmas
  107. 12.  Christmas
  108. Dolphin
  109. THE DOLPHIN MANUSCRIPT (1972)
  110. Notes
  111. Also by Robert Lowell
  112. About the Author and Editor
  113. Copyright