Amy Lowell (1874–1925)
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Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 - May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school from Brookline, Massachusetts, who posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. Although Amy Lowell did not look like the stereotypical poet---she was of ample build and enjoyed smoking large mehr anzeigen black cigars in public---she did write verse that was revolutionary in its time. When "Sword Blades" and "Poppy Seed" (1914) were published, she emerged as the leader of the new poetry movement called the imagist school, and so thoroughly was she identified with this new precise and delicate style that Ezra Pound jokingly proposed to retitle it "Amygism." Two of her poems, "Patterns" (1915) and "A Lady" (1914) are frequently anthologized, both demonstrating her vivid depiction of color, agility with sharp images, and precise use of words. Lowell came from a well-known and established Boston family that included James Russell Lowell as one of her predecessors and was later to produce another well-known poet in the person of Robert Lowell. Louis Untermeyer said of Amy Lowell in his introduction to "The Complete Poetical Works" (1955), that "her final place in the history of American literature has not been determined, but the importance of her influence remains unquestioned. Underneath her preoccupation with the need for novelty...she was a dynamic force." Her posthumous volume, "What's O'Clock" (1925), was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1926. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Lowell, Amy
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- Lowell, Amy Lawrence
- Geburtstag
- 1874-02-09
- Todestag
- 1925-05-12
- Begräbnisort
- Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Sevenels, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
- Sterbeort
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
- Wohnorte
- Brookline, Massachusetts, USA (birth ∙ death)
Dublin, New Hampshire, USA - Ausbildung
- self-educated
- Berufe
- poet
literary critic
essayist
lecturer
biographer - Beziehungen
- Lowell, Percival (brother)
Lowell, A. Lawrence (brother)
Lowell, James Russell (cousin)
Fletcher, John Gould (friend)
Putnam, Elizabeth Lowell (sister) - Organisationen
- Phi Beta Kappa
The Imagists - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Phi Beta Kappa
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- Amy Lawrence Lowell was born into a wealthy and prominent New England family in Brookline, Massachusetts. She was a sister of the astronomer Percival Lowell, the legal scholar Abbott Lawrence Lowell, who became president of Harvard, and political activist and philanthropist Elizabeth Lowell Putnam. She was educated at home by a governess and at private schools in Boston, read widely, and travelled extensively in Europe with her family. She was considered an outspoken, eccentric and unusual personality. The Dictionary of Literary Biography called Amy Lowell "the embodiment of the new liberated woman," citing her "unlimited faith in her own capability." Her first independent work, the poem "Fixed Idea" was published in The Atlantic magazine in 1910. She campaigned for the success of Imagist poetry in America and embraced its principles in her own work. She acted as a publicity agent for the movement, editing and contributing to an anthology of Imagist poets in 1915. With the deaths of her parents prior to World War I, she purchased the 10-acre family estate Sevenals, where she had been born, and where she lived the rest of her life. Amy Lowell wrote a biography of the British poet John Keats, a lifelong love, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry posthumously in 1926 for her collection "What's O'Clock." She died of a cerebral hemorrhage at age 51.
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