Selected Poems: Expanded Edition: Including selections from Day by Day

Selected Poems includes over 200 poems, culled from each of Robert Lowell's books of verse-- Lord Weary's Castle , The Mills of the Kavanaughs , Life Studies , For the Union Dead , Near the Ocean , History , For Lizzie and Harriet , and The Dolphin . This edition, which first appeared in 1977, was revised by the there are additions, deletions, and a change in sequence in the Dolphin section; the five poems in the title sequence from Near the Ocean are now uncut; and a new poem is added to the "Nineteen Thirties."