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Index
Cover
Other Titles
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Reading Myself
Contents
Prologue
Old Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 19, 1845
“The Trouble with Writing Poetry”
I: Introduction - Steel and Fire
1: No Tickets for That Altitude
2: The Archangel Loved Heights
II: Origins - The Puritanical Iron Hand of Constraint
3: Sands of the Unknown
4: This Dynamited Brook
5: A Brackish Reach
III: Illness - The Kingdom of the Mad
6: In Flight, Without a Ledge
7: Snow-Sugared, Unraveling
8: Writing Takes the Ache Away
IV: Character - How Will the Heart Endure?
9: With All My Love, Cal
10: And Will Not Scare
V: Illness and Art - Something Altogether Lived
11: A Magical Orange Grove in a Nightmare
12: Words Meat-Hooked from the Living Steer
VI: Mortality - Come; I Bell Thee Home
13: Life Blown Towards Evening
14: Bleak-Boned with Survival
15: He Is Out of Bounds Now
Appendix 1. Psychiatric Records of Robert Lowell
Appendix 2. Mania and Depression: Clinical Description, Diagnosis, and Nomenclature
Appendix 3. Medical History of Robert Lowell (by Thomas A. Traill, FRCP)
Acknowledgments
Notes
Permissions Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
A Note About the Author
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