A cigar-smoking proponent of free-verse modernism in open rebellion against her distinguished Boston lineage, Amy Lowell cut an indelible public figure in her lifetime. But in the words of editor Honor Moore, "what strikes the contemporary reader is not the sophistication of Lowell's feminist or antiwar stances, but the bald audacity of her ...
Lowell's poems represent three phases of his creative life: his early, tightly formal poems dealing with religious and classical subjects; the looser, more personal style of the poems in LIFE STUDIES; and, toward the end of his life, more densely textured, concise, and elegiac poems such as those in his Pulitzer Prize-winning volume, THE DOLPHIN.
Three well-educated ladies wrote these diaries, among them the skilled writer Murasaki Shikibu (ca. 973-1025 a.d.). A lady-in-waiting to the Japanese Empress, she observed the upper classes with fine detail. The Sarashina Diary, begins with a 9-year-old girl's dreams and ends with the grown woman's account of her husband's funeral (1009-1059 a.d.) ...
Lowell's poems represent three phases of his creative life: his early, tightly formal poems dealing with religious and classical subjects; the looser, more personal style of the poems in LIFE STUDIES; and, toward the end of his life, more densely textured, concise, and elegiac poems such as those in his Pulitzer Prize-winning volume, THE DOLPHIN.
Amy Lawrence Lowell (1874-1925) was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. She never attended college because it was not deemed proper for a woman by her family, but she compensated for this with her avid reading, which led to near-obsessive book-collecting. ...
Then Grass-Bush-and-Blossom wrapped her cedar-bark skirt about her and sprang up, and her silver and copper ornaments rang sweetly with her moving. The-One-Who-Walks-All-Over-the-Sky looked at Many Swans. "You have not waited," she said. "Alas! It is an evil beginning. My son, my son, I wished to love you." But he was glad and thought: "It is a ...
1921. American poet, biographer and critic. She was deeply interested in and influenced by the Imagist movement, led by Ezra Pound. While Lowell's poetry was not widely recognized during her lifetime, she did write more than 650 poems, and is now acknowledged as the first American woman poet to see herself as part of a feminine literary tradition, ...
Far And Lofty Yet They Glimmer, Apples Of Hesperides! Blinded By Their Radiant Shimmer, Pushing Forward Just For These; Dew-besprinkled, Bramble-marred, Poor Duped Mortal, Travel-scarred, Always Thinking Soon To Seize.
Lowell's 1921 study focused on E.A. Robinson, Frost, Masters, Sandburg, and, of course, the Imagists, in this case H.D. and John Gould Fletcher, and offered her unique insight into their work.
Amy Lawrence Lowell (1874-1925) was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. She never attended college because it was not deemed proper for a woman by her family, but she compensated for this with her avid reading, which led to near-obsessive book-collecting. ...
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Amy Lawrence Lowell (1874-1925) was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. She never attended college because it was not deemed proper for a woman by her family, but she compensated for this with her avid reading, which led to near-obsessive book-collecting. ...
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Donald Elder, Amy Lowell, Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, W. Somerset Maugham, Ring Lardner, Julia Peterkin (Mood), Gertrude Franklin Atherton (Horn), Christopher Morley, Sinclair Lewis, James Thurber, and...
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Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
