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Studies of DYLAN THOMAS ALLEN GINSBERG SYLVIA PLATH AND ROBERT LOWELL Other Books by Louis Simpson POETRY The Arrivistes: Poems 1.940-1.949 Good News of Death and Other Poems A Dream of Governors At the End of the Open Road Selected Poems Adventures of the Letter I Searching for the Ox PROSE ]ames Hogg: A Critical Study Riverside Drive An Introduction to Poetry North of Jamaica Three on the Tower: The Lives and Works of Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, and William Carlos Williams Studies of DYLAN THOMAS ALLEN GINSBERG SYLVIA PLATH AND ROBERT LOWELL LOUIS SIMPSON ~ ~ © Louis Simpson 1978 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1978 978-0-333-27396-8 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission First published in the United States of America 1978 under the title A Revolution in Taste First published in the United Kingdom 1979 Published by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD London and Basingstoke Associated companies in Delhi Dublin Hong Kong Johannesburg Lagos Melbourne New York Singapore Tokyo British Ubrary Cataloguing in Publication Data Simpson, Louis Studies of Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Sylvia Plath and Robert Lowell 1. Ginsberg, Allen-Criticism and interpreta tion 2. Plath, Sylvia-Criticism and interpretation 3. Thomas, Dylan- Criticism and interpreta tion 4. Lowell, Robert-Criticism and interpretation I. Title 811'.5'409 PS3513.174Z/ ISBN 978-1-349-04966-0 ISBN 978-1-349-04964-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-04964-6 This book is sold subject to the standard conditions of the Net Book Agreement Acknowledgements The author gratefully acknowledges permission to reprint excerpts from the follow ing works. Kingsley Amis, A Case of Samples. Copyright © 1.956 by Kingsley Amis, by permis sion of Curtis Brown Ltd. W. H. Auden, Collected Poems. Copyright © 1.976 by Edward Mendelson, William Meredith and Monroe K. Spears, executors of the Estate of W. H. Auden, by permis sion of Random House, Inc. and Faber and Faber, Ltd. T. S. Eliot, Collected Poems, 1.901.-1.962. Copyright © 1.970 by Esme Valerie Eliot, by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. and Faber and Faber, Ltd. Allen Ginsberg, Empty Mirror. Copyright © 1.961. by Allen Ginsberg, by permission of Corinth Books. Allen Ginsberg, The Gates of Wrath. Copyright © 1.972 by Allen Ginsberg, by permission of Gray Fox Press. Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems. Copyright© 1.956, 1.959 by Allen Ginsberg, by permission of City Lights Books. . Allen Ginsberg, Kaddish and Other Poems. Copyright © 1.961. by Allen Ginsberg, by permission of City Lights Books. Allen Ginsberg, Planet News. Copyright© 1.968 by Allen Ginsberg, by permission of City Lights Books. Allen Ginsberg, Journals. Copyright © 1.977 by Allen Ginsberg, by permission of Grove Press, Inc. Ted Hughes, The Hawk in the Rain. Copyright © 1.956, 1.957 by Ted Hughes, by permission of Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. and Faber and Faber, Ltd. Robert Lowell, Day by Day. Copyright © 1.975, 1.977 by Robert Lowell, by permis sion of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. and Faber and Faber, Ltd. Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead. Copyright © 1.956, 1.960, 1.961., 1.962, 1.963, 1.964 by Robert Lowell, by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. and Faber and Faber, Ltd. Robert Lowell, Imitations. Copyright © 1.958, 1.959, 1.960, 1.961. by Robert Lowell, by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. and Faber and Faber, Ltd. Robert Lowell, History. Copyright © 1.967, 1.968, 1.969, 1.970, 1.973 by Robert Lowell, by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Faber and Faber, Ltd. Robert Lowell, Life Studies. Copyright © 1.956, 1.959 by Robert Lowell, by per mission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. and Faber and Faber, Ltd. Robert Lowell, Land of Unlikeness. Copyright 1.944 by Robert Lowell. Copyright renewed © 1.972 by Robert Lowell. Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle and the Mills of the Kavanaughs. Copyright© 1.944, 1.946, 1.947, 1.950, 1.951. by Robert Lowell, by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc. Robert Lowell, Near the Ocean. Copyright © 1.963, 1.965, 1.966, 1.967 by Robert Lowell, by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. and Faber and Faber, Ltd. Robert Lowell, Notebook 1967-68. Copyright © 1969 by Robert Lowell, by per mission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. and Faber and Faber, Ltd. Robert Lowell, Notebook (rev. ed.). Copyright © 1967, 1968, 1970 by Robert Lowell, by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. and Faber and Faber, Ltd. Robert Lowell, Poems 1938-1949. Copyright © 1950 by Robert Lowell, by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd: Robert Lowell, Phaedra and Figaro (with Jacques Barzun) (Phaedra, a Verse Trans lation of Racine's Phedre, English ed.). Copyright © 1960, 1961 by Robert Lowell, by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. and Faber and Faber, Ltd. Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Poems. Copyright © 1917, 1945 by Edna St. Vincent Millay, by permission of Norma Millay Ellis. Wilfred Owen, Collected Poems. Copyright © 1946, 1963 by Chatto & WUtdus Ltd., by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation and The Owen Estate and Chatto & Windus Ltd. Sylvia Plath, "Admonition," "Doom of Exiles," "I Thought I Could Not Be Hurt," and "Mad Girl's Love Song." By permission of Olwyn Hughes. Sylvia Plath, Ariel. Copyright © 1965 by Ted Hughes, by permission of Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc., and Olwyn Hughes. Sylvia Plath, The Colossus and Other Poems. Copyright © 1957, 1962 by Sylvia Plath, by permission of Random House, Inc., Alfred A. Knopf Inc. and Faber and Faber, Ltd. Sylvia Plath, Crossing the Water. Copyright© 1971 by Ted Hughes, by permission of Harper and Row, Publishers, Inc, and Olwyn Hug~es. Letters Home by Sylvia Plath, selected and edited by Aurelia Schober Plath. Copy right © 1975 by Aurelia Schober Plath, by permission of Harper and Row Publishers, Inc. and Faber and Faber, Ltd. Theodore Roethke, "Prognosis," copyright 1941 by Theodore Roethke, and "The Long Waters," copyright © 1962 by Beatrice Roethke as Administratrix of the Estate of Theodore Roethke, from the book The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke, reprintl!d by permission of Doubleday & Co., Inc. and (by permission of) Faber and Faber, Ltd. Holly Stevens, editor, The Palm at the End of the Mind. Copyright © 1967, 1969, 1971 by Holly Stevens, by permission of Random House, Inc. The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens, by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd. Allen Tate, Collected Poems. Copyright © 1952, 1953, 1970, 1977 by Allen Tate. Copyright 1931, 1932, 1937, 1948 by Charles Scribner's Sons. Renewal Copyright © 1959, 1960, 1965 by Allen Tate, by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc. Paul Ferris, Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1977 by Paul Ferris and Hodder and Stoughton, by permission of David Higham Associates Ltd. and Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas. Daniel Jones, My Friend Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1977 by Daniel Jones, by permission of J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd. and David Higham Associates, Ltd., and the Trustees for the copyrights of the Dylan Thomas Estate. Ralph Maud, editor, The Notebooks (Poet in the Making, English ed.). Copyright© 1965, 1966, 1967 by the Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas, by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation and J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd., and the Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas. Daniel Jones, editor, The Poems of Dylan Thomas. Copyright 1952 by Dylan Thomas, 1967 by the Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas, by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation and J. M. Dent and Sons, Ltd. and the Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas. Mark Van Doren, Selected Poems. Copyright © 1954 by Mark Van Doren, by per mission of Hill and Wang (now a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Inc.). William Carlos Williams, Collected Later Poems. Copyright 1948 by William Carlos Williams, by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. William Carlos' Williams, Paterson Book IV. Copyright© 1951 by William Carlos Williams, by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. This book is dedicated to Robert Levine and RobertS. Liebert, who, with their friendship and advice, helped me to write it. Contents FOREWORD xi The Color of Saying 1 "The Eye Altering Alters All" 43 Black, Banded with Yellow 83 Robert Lowell's Indissoluble Bride 129 AFTERWORD 169 NOTES 171 BIBLIOGRAPHY 187 INDEX 193 There can be no interpreting the masterpieces of the past unless one judges them from the standpoint of those who wrote them, and not from the outside, from a respectful distance, and with all academic deference. -PROUST, Contre Sainte-Beuve

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