Selected Poems includes over 200 works culled from 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, andThe Dolphin. Edited and with a foreword by the poet Frank Bidart, who also edited Collected Poems of Robert Lowell, this volume is a perfectly chosen representation of "the greatest American poet of the mid-century" (Richard Poirier,Book Week).