THE OLD GLORY by Robert Lowell SIGNED & INSCRIBED

" For James Sanders / From / Robert Lowell (signed) / In Castine, In July / 1968 " in blue ink on the title page.

Published by Noonday Press, New York. Fourth Noonday Printing, 1967. Illustrated softcovers, 8.25" x 5.5", 193 pages GOOD CONDITION: tanning to the covers and inner pages, light wear to the covers, fading to the spine, light crease to spine, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked. With a unique literary association to the New England coastal village of Castine, Maine where Robert Lowell inherited a house and summered for 15 years from 1955 to 1970 with his wife, writer Elizabeth Hardwick.

Robert Lowell (1917-1977) American Poet, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and celebrated as America's most famous living poet. He taught such luminaries as W. D. Snodgrass, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath. He set his famous poem "Skunk Hour" in Castine. The Old Glory consists of three plays adapted from works by Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville and reflect the political turmoil of the 1960s