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Lowell, Amy

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1874–1925, American poet, biographer, and critic, b. Brookline, Mass., privately educated; sister of Percival Lowell and Abbott Lawrence Lowell. In 1912 she published A Dome of Many-Colored Glass , a volume of conventional verse. The next year she went to England, where she met Ezra Pound and became identified with the imagists . After Pound abandoned the group, she became its leader and champion, publishing a three-volume anthology entitled Some Imagist Poets (1915, 1916, 1917). Lowell's own poetry is particularly notable for its rendering of sensuous images. Her experiments with polyphonic prose, a free-verse form that combines prose and poetry, are considered unsuccessful. Among her volumes of poetry are Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914), Men, Women, and Ghosts (1916), Can Grande's Castle (1918), What's O'Clock (1925; Pulitzer Prize), East Wind (1926), and Ballads for Sale (1927). Her best-known poems are “Patterns” and “Lilacs.” Lowell's perceptive and dynamic criticism includes…
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From The Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Women's Biography
American poet. She was born into a leading and immensely wealthy New England family in Brookline, Massachusetts; she was educated privately, and accompanied her parents on long trips to Europe. One of her brothers became President of Harvard, and another a noted astronomer. Before she was 30 her…
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US poet. A descendant of James Russell Lowell, she was associated with the Imagist movement, and wrote free verse in a style she named ‘unrhymed cadence’. She also wrote prose and criticism. For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why…
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Full text Article Lowell, Amy (Lawrence) (1874–1925)

From The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry
Poet and foster-parent of the *Imagist movement. Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, of an aristocratic family and educated privately, she came late to poetry after years of travel, voluntary work, and society life. Her first volume, A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass (1912), is derivative late…
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Full text Article Amy Lowell 1874–1925

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Nature offers no greater splendor than the starry sky on a clear, dark night. Silent, timeless, jeweled with the constellations of ancient myth and legend, the night sky has inspired wonder throughout the ages. Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 1980s (Volume 1 ) Report to the Astronomy Survey…
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(b. 1778–d. 1841) American fiction writer, essayist Writer and essayist William Austin published several pieces of fiction in New England magazines. His most noteworthy story, “Peter Rugg, the Missing Man” (1824), is an eerie tale of a Bostonian who was lost when he set out for the city in the midst…
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Full text Article Lowell, Amy

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Also known as: Amy Lawrence Lowell (b. 1874–d. 1925) poet, biographer Amy Lowell, an unconventional, prolific, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, was America's leading exponent of the imagist movement and an influential figure in modern poetry. Born on February 9, 1874, at Sevenels, her family's estate in…
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Full text Article Lowell, Amy

From Encyclopedia of American Literature Full text Article Volume 3
(b. 1874–d. 1925) American poet Amy Lowell was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, into one of the most prominent families in New England. She wrote poetry in her childhood but did not recommit to her passion until 1902. Lowell published her first poem, “A Fixed Idea,” in 1910 in Atlantic Monthly and…
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