Lord Weary's Castle
Lowell, Robert250 USD
Date
1946
Category
Poetry
Description
Lord Weary's Castle, Robert Lowell's second book of poetry, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1947 when Lowell was only thirty. Robert Giroux, who was the publisher of Lowell's wife at the time, Jean Stafford, also became Lowell's publisher after he saw the manuscript for Lord Weary's Castle and was very impressed; he later stated that Lord Weary's Castle was the most successful book of poems that he ever published.
Excerpt
There once the penitents took off their shoes
And then walked barefoot the remaining mile:
Like cows to the old shrine, until you lose
Track of your dragging pain.
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