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1979 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 315-317
Author(s):  
David J. Murray
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New Jersey ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
American Poetry ◽  
Elizabeth Bishop ◽  
John Ashbery ◽  
Adrienne Rich ◽  
Robert Lowell ◽  
James Merrill

‘In Sleep, in Thunder’: Elliott Carter'S Portrait of Robert Lowell

Tempo ◽  
1982 ◽  
pp. 2-9
Author(s):  
David Schiff
Keyword(s):  
American Poetry ◽  
Elizabeth Bishop ◽  
New Work ◽  
John Ashbery ◽  
Robert Lowell ◽  
Contemporary American Poetry ◽  
Initial Choice

Elliott Carter's new work for the London Sinfonietta, In Sleep, In Thunder, is a setting of six poems by Robert Lowell scored for tenor and fourteen instrumentalists and composed ‘in memory of the poet and friend’. With it Carter completes a triptych on contemporary American poetry that began with A Mirror on Which to Dwell (six poems of Elizabeth Bishop) and continued with Syringa, on the poem of that name by John Ashbery. Since Lowell himself suggested to the composer the initial choice of Elizabeth Bishop's poetry it seems appropriate that Lowell should receive a parallel (though posthumous) tribute.

Carter vs. Poets (Round 1)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Schiff
Keyword(s):  
Vocal Music ◽  
American Poetry ◽  
Elizabeth Bishop ◽  
Experimental Poetry ◽  
John Ashbery ◽  
Hart Crane ◽  
Robert Lowell ◽  
Complex Relation ◽  
Wide Range

With A Mirror on which to Dwell, composed in 1975, Carter returned to vocal music and to modern American poetry. Mirror, to poems of Elizabeth Bishop, was soon followed by Syringa (John Ashbery) and In Sleep, In Thunder (Robert Lowell). These three works explore a wide range of expressive territory. Bishop and Lowell were close to Carter in age, while Ashbery was twenty years younger. The two older poets pursue an intimate confessional style, while Ashbery’s far more experimental poetry derives from French surrealism. Bishop’s poetry is precise and observant, while Lowell’s seems to teeter on the verge of mental collapse. All three works reveal a complex relation between composer and poets, as does the single orchestra work of this period, A Symphony of Three Orchestras, which summed up and concluded Carter’s engagement with Hart Crane.

scholarly journals Korespondencja Zygmunta Haupta z redakcją „Tematów”

2019 ◽  
pp. 313-342
Author(s):  
Paweł Panas
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Short Story ◽  
American Poetry ◽  
Robert Frost ◽  
Robert Lowell ◽  
Literary Life

Zygmunt Haupt’s preserved correspondence with the editors of Tematy (Paweł Mayewski and Jan Kempka) from the years 1962-1970 consists of seventeen letters. During that time, Haupt published in the quarterly from New York his translations of three poems by Robert Frost and one by Robert Lowell, as well as one short story of his own. This correspondence, although modest in volume, is an interesting testimony of Haupt’s collaboration with an important émigré journal. It also presents the writer as someone interested in the current literary life, trying his hand as a translator of American poetry.

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