{"id":141758,"date":"2019-12-24T10:00:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-24T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=141758"},"modified":"2019-12-23T07:04:24","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T12:04:24","slug":"santa-claus-is-secretly-robert-lowell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/24\/santa-claus-is-secretly-robert-lowell\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Lowell Dressed as Santa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_141762\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/elizabeth-hardwick-harriet-lowell-and-robert-lowell-in-santa-costume-with-anna-karenina-doll-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141762\" class=\"wp-image-141762 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/elizabeth-hardwick-harriet-lowell-and-robert-lowell-in-santa-costume-with-anna-karenina-doll-2-1024x650.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/elizabeth-hardwick-harriet-lowell-and-robert-lowell-in-santa-costume-with-anna-karenina-doll-2-1024x650.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/elizabeth-hardwick-harriet-lowell-and-robert-lowell-in-santa-costume-with-anna-karenina-doll-2-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/elizabeth-hardwick-harriet-lowell-and-robert-lowell-in-santa-costume-with-anna-karenina-doll-2-768x488.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/elizabeth-hardwick-harriet-lowell-and-robert-lowell-in-santa-costume-with-anna-karenina-doll-2.jpg 1380w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-141762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harriet Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Robert Lowell on the steps of 239 Marlborough Street in Boston, Massachusetts, Christmas 1959 (Courtesy of Harriet Lowell)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 1959, Robert Lowell and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/2893\/elizabeth-hardwick-the-art-of-fiction-no-87-elizabeth-hardwick\"> Elizabeth Hardwick<\/a> were feeling restless with their Boston life. It was the year of the publication of Lowell\u2019s <em>Life Studies<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Only teaching on Tuesdays, book-worming<br \/>\nin pajamas fresh from the washer each morning,<br \/>\nI hog a whole house on Boston\u2019s<br \/>\n\u201chardly passionate Marlborough Street,\u201d<br \/>\nwhere even the man<br \/>\nscavenging filth in the back alley trash cans,<br \/>\nhas two children, a beach wagon, a helpmate,<br \/>\nand is a \u201cyoung Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>(\u201cMemories of West Street and Lepke\u201d)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lowell won the National Book Award for the collection, but the publication also coincided with a manic episode. \u201cI feel rather creepy and paltry writing now to announce that I am all healed and stable again. So it is. Five attacks in ten years make you feel rather a basket-case\u201d he wrote to Elizabeth Bishop in July. By the fall and winter, still recovering, he was writing little, working mostly on translations.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Hardwick was writing essays for <em>Harper\u2019s<\/em> that would go into her collection <em>A View of My Own<\/em>, including \u201cThe Decline of Book Reviewing\u201d in October (the article that would inspire the founding of <em>The New York Review of Books<\/em> in 1963), and, in the December issue, \u201cBoston: The Lost Ideal,\u201d an excoriation of the city they lived in and a longing for the one they would move to the following year: \u201cIn Boston there is an utter absence of that wild, electric beauty of New York, of the marvelous, excited rush of people in taxicabs at twilight, of the great Avenues and Streets, the restaurants, theatres, bars, hotels, delicatessens, shops. In Boston the night comes down with an incredibly heavy, small-town finality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When Frederick Seidel traveled to their Boston home to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/4664\/robert-lowell-the-art-of-poetry-no-3-robert-lowell\">interview Lowell for <em>The <\/em><em>Paris Review<\/em><\/a> in March 1960, he described the sounds of the street outside: \u201cFour floors below the study window, cars whined through the early spring rain on Marlborough Street toward the Boston Public Garden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the Christmas of 1959, Lowell, dressed as Santa, gave their daughter, Harriet, a doll with a velvet hat. The gift was actually from Elizabeth Bishop. He wrote to thank her on January 4, 1960 (Harriet\u2019s third birthday): \u201cThree marvelous bottles of wine from S. S. Pierce made you seem just around the corner, while Harriet\u2019s \u2018Anna Karenina\u2019 doll, dressed in the white boots you brought her, made you exotic and far away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/harriet-and-robert-lowell.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-141765\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/harriet-and-robert-lowell-1024x641.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/harriet-and-robert-lowell-1024x641.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/harriet-and-robert-lowell-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/harriet-and-robert-lowell-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/harriet-and-robert-lowell.jpg 1382w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"a-size-large a-spacing-none\"><em><span class=\"il\">Saskia<\/span>\u00a0Hamilton is the editor of\u00a0<\/em><span id=\"m_-7734367233177287128productTitle\">The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979: Elizabeth Hardwick, Robert Lowell, and Their Circle\u00a0<\/span><em>(Farrar, Straus &amp; Giroux, 2019) and the author most recently of\u00a0<\/em>Corridor\u00a0<em>(Graywolf, 2014). She is an advisory editor for\u00a0<\/em><span id=\"m_-7734367233177287128productTitle\">The Paris Review<em>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas of 1959, Lowell, dressed as Santa, gave their daughter Harriet a doll with a velvet hat. 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