Elizabeth Hardwick

The Lowell marriage has given Blackwood a bad press. Ian Hamilton (biographer of Lowell) not only thought her awful (whereas he liked Lizzie Hardwick ) but also supposed that, as an Englishman, he was...

Having obtained a divorce in Santo Domingo, CB married the US poet Robert Lowell , whom she had met (as husband of Elizabeth Hardwick ) in 1966; their affair began while he was a...

American poet Robert Lowell died suddenly of a heart attack in a taxi, somewhere between Kennedy Airport and Manhattan, while hurrying away from his present wife, CB , and towards his former wife, Elizabeth Hardwick .

Blackwood felt appropriated; Elizabeth Hardwick too was outraged to find that Lowell had drawn heavily on words by her. Elizabeth Bishop thought the poetry magnificent but reproved Lowell for the potentially infinite harm he did...

Others she met at Yaddo included Patricia Highsmith , who admired her seriousness, Elizabeth Hardwick , Robert Lowell , whom she hoped to convert to Catholicism, and Robert and Sally Fitzgerald , whose home she...

Important among EB 's friendships were those with Marianne Moore (whom she met in March 1934 while she was still at college and learned a lot from in her early years in New York, but...

Epigraphs to particular poems quote Chaucer , Swift , Elizabeth Barrett , Elizabeth Bishop , Geoffrey Bateson , and (most frequently) Elizabeth Hardwick . The title-poem (called by a reviewer Kafka esque) exemplifies...

Randall Jarrell 's article in the New York Times about CS 's The Man Who Loved Children (followed in August by another article, in New Republic, by Elizabeth Hardwick ) began to turn Stead's reputation around.

At this time Stead was almost forgotten: Hardwick wrote of the dust, grimly, meanly collecting . . . upon a work of sheer astonishment and success.

Rich was during her lifetime and still is widely acclaimed and honoured as a major poet, theorist, and critic of culture. Her poetry and prose have been examined in literary and social criticism, and in...