BIB_ID
412105
Accession number
MA 22063.4
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; 3 lines crossed out in the first stanza; 1 line written in pencil below the stanzas: "I slept these years now, and I woke again."
Autograph corrections in pencil by Lowell throughout; 3 lines crossed out in the first stanza; 1 line written in pencil below the stanzas: "I slept these years now, and I woke again."
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Typescript of a revised version of a poem containing 16 lines in 2 stanzas, with the last two lines ending, "Surely this life was fast enough... But tell me, / Why did we live? Why do we die?"
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