Memoirs

Of the twenty chapters that make up these ‘Memoirs’, seventeen appear here in print for the first time, unearthed by the editors from the Harvard Archive. They include intense depictions of Lowell’s mental illness and his efforts to recover, and conclude with reminiscences of other writers – T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Hannah Arendt, and Sylvia Plath. ‘Memoirs’ demonstrates Lowell’s expansive gifts as a prose stylist and provide further evidence of the range and brilliance of his achievement.