Volume 27, Number 2 · February 21, 1980
Epics
By Robert Lowell
During the summer of 1977, Robert Lowell finished a draft of a long essay on New England poets, 'New England and Further.' The 'further' refers (for the most part) to the conclusion of the essay, 'Epics,' published here. He intended to spend the first two months of the fall school term polishing the essay, and correcting mistakes. He was working in Castine, Maine, almost without books, and pressing to complete a draft. (There are errors: Dante assigns Boniface VIII to Hell, not Purgatory.) He died September 12, 1977.
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