THE DOLPHIN is a collection of 14-line "love poems" by Robert Lowell published in 1973. . Dolphin by Robert Lowell. . *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Robert Lowell - 1917-1977 My Dolphin, you only guide me by surprise, a captive as Racine, the man of craft, drawn through his maze of iron composition by the incomparable wandering voice of Phèdre. . When I was troubled in mind, you made for my body caught in its hangman's-knot of sinking lines, the glassy bowing and scraping of my will. At the time Lowell was writing these poems, a great storm was going on in his personal life, as he had left his wife Elizabeth Hardwick and their teenager daughter Harriet behind in New York and gone to London to live with Lady Caroline Blackwood. The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973 [Robert Lowell, Saskia Hamilton] on Amazon.com. The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973 - Ebook written by Robert Lowell. "The Dolphin" is a new sequence of love poems by America's foremost poet, winner of the first Copernicus Award, given to him by the Copernicus Society and the Academy of American Poets for keeping alive the best values of American literature. .My Dolphin you only guide me by surprisea captive as Racine the man of craftdrawn through his maze of iron composition. Page Winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Robert Lowell’s The Dolphin was controversial from the beginning: many of the poems include letters from Robert Lowell’s wife, the celebrated writer and critic Elizabeth Hardwick, wrote to him after he left her for the English socialite and writer Caroline Blackwood. I have sat and listened to too many > words of the collaborating muse The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973 is an expanded edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning provocative poetry collection that crossed the line between art and life. Edited by Saskia Hamilton (a professor of English at Barnard College who previously edited Lowell's correspondence with 1956 Poetry winner Elizabeth Bishop), "The Dolphin Letters" compiles the writers' 1970-1977 correspondence, spanning their separation, divorce and reconciliation while co-parenting and navigating Lowell's manic depression. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973.