BIB_ID
412103
Accession number
MA 22063.2
Creator
Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977.
Display Date
[1965].
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28 x 21.7 cm
Notes
Possible date of writing based on Randall Jarrell's death.
Autograph corrections in pencil by Lowell throughout; "School" written in pencil above the title; "notebook 60" written in pencil at the bottom of the sheet.
Autograph corrections in pencil by Lowell throughout; "School" written in pencil above the title; "notebook 60" written in pencil at the bottom of the sheet.
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Typescript of a revised version of a poem containing 14 lines in 1 stanza, with the last two lines ending, "Surely this life was fast enough.... But tell me, / Cal, why did we live? Why do we die?"
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