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Amy Lowell (1874–1925)

Autor von Amy Lowell: Selected Poems

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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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Werke von Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell: Selected Poems (2004) 97 Exemplare
Selected Poems of Amy Lowell (1928) 50 Exemplare
John Keats (1925) 36 Exemplare
What's o'clock (1925) 33 Exemplare
Men, Women and Ghosts (1916) 31 Exemplare
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914) 29 Exemplare
Pictures of the Floating World (1919) 20 Exemplare
A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass (1981) 19 Exemplare
East Wind (1926) 14 Exemplare
Can Grande's Castle (1918) 14 Exemplare
Ballads for Sale (1927) 11 Exemplare
Some Imagist Poets An Anthology (2011) — Herausgeber; Mitwirkender — 9 Exemplare
Some Imagist Poets, 1916 An Annual Anthology (2011) — Herausgeber; Mitwirkender — 8 Exemplare

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Literature: The Human Experience (2006) — Mitwirkender — 340 Exemplare
The Penguin Book of Women Poets (1978) — Mitwirkender — 298 Exemplare
The Penguin Book of Homosexual Verse (1983) — Mitwirkender — 236 Exemplare
Imagist Poetry (Penguin Modern Classics) (1972) — Mitwirkender — 160 Exemplare
Imagist Poetry: An Anthology (1999) — Mitwirkender — 137 Exemplare
A Comprehensive Anthology of American Poetry (1929) — Mitwirkender — 128 Exemplare
No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women (1973) — Mitwirkender — 123 Exemplare
Poems of Early Childhood (Childcraft) (1923) — Mitwirkender — 118 Exemplare
The Standard Book of British and American Verse (1932) — Mitwirkender — 114 Exemplare
The Imagist Poem (1963) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben101 Exemplare
Twentieth-Century American Poetry (1777) — Mitwirkender — 96 Exemplare
Poems Between Women (1997) — Mitwirkender — 91 Exemplare
Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan (1961) — Einführung — 76 Exemplare
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Mitwirkender — 68 Exemplare
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Mitwirkender — 63 Exemplare
The Vintage Book of American Women Writers (2011) — Mitwirkender — 56 Exemplare
Prose and Poetry for Appreciation (1934) — Mitwirkender — 44 Exemplare
Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre (1947) — Mitwirkender — 26 Exemplare
Masquerade: Queer Poetry in America to the End of World War II (2004) — Mitwirkender — 19 Exemplare
Modernist Women Poets: An Anthology (2014) — Mitwirkender — 19 Exemplare
American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany (2007) — Mitwirkender — 19 Exemplare
Queer Nature: A Poetry Anthology (2022) — Mitwirkender — 14 Exemplare
Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections (2007) — Mitwirkender — 12 Exemplare
American Poems 1779-1900 (1922) — Mitwirkender — 11 Exemplare
Des Imagistes: An Anthology (1914) — Mitwirkender — 11 Exemplare
Some Imagist Poets [1915] — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Let Us Be Men (1969) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
The Best of American Poetry [Audio] (1997) — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar

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Gebräuchlichste Namensform
Lowell, Amy
Rechtmäßiger Name
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
Kurzbiographie
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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Hmmm. I read this after H.D.'s Sea Garden because I wanted to read more Imagist writers. It was a bit of a let down, though not entirely. I love the title of this book, and the "Crowned" poem is nice, too. But mostly...no. I felt the sentiments were nice, but her writing just missed expression and originality. But maybe that's just me. Or maybe it's just the unfair competition with H.D., who I think is amazing.
 
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Merinde | 1 weitere Rezension | Mar 31, 2013 |
Amy Lowell (1874 - 1925), in brief, was an early 20th century American poet, who was part of the Imagist movement in poetry ("A Brief Guide to Imagism" via poets.org. "Imagism" via wikipedia).

Amy is a fascinating character. In poetry circles, I suspect, she is best known for her feud with Ezra Pound (touched on in the wiki article linked above) and her posthumous 1926 Pulitzer Prize. Amy was a Boston heiress*, a lesbian who loved cigars and Keats, and a tireless champion of the modern poetry she was a part of. Her poetry readings were theatrical events and she was immensely popular with audiences. "Her theatricality, along with the forcefulness of her sweeping pronouncements about the state of contemporary poetry, earned her a devoted, almost cult following of fans who mobbed train stations to get her autograph (thus necessitating police escorts) and who packed auditoriums to standing-room-only capacity in order to hear speak."

Amy was also willing to use her money to publish modern poets and she moved to London at one point, and began to fund anthologies which allowed the poets represented to chose his or her best work, rather than be chosen editorially by Pound.

This collection of Lowell's poetry is a great introduction to the poet and her work. It has just the right amount of biography and commentary on her verse, and good representation of her often 'exuberant' work. It also includes her poetry inspired by, and her translations from, Chinese poetry.

Two of my personal favorites:

OPAL

You are ice and fire,
The touch of you burns my hands like snow.
You are cold and flame.
You are the crimson of amaryllis,
The silver of moon-touched magnolias.
When I am with you,
My heart is a frozen pond
Gleaming with agitated torches.

(The Independent, August 1918)

SEPTEMBER, 1918

This afternoon was the colour of water falling through
sunlight;
The trees glittered with the tumbling leaves;
The sidewalks shone like alleys of dropped maple leaves,
And the houses ran along them laughing out of square, open
windows.
Under a tree in the park,
Two little boys, lying flat on their faces,
Were carefully gathering red berries
To put in a pasteboard box.
Some day there will be no war,
Then I shall take out this afternoon
And turn it in my fingers,
And remark the sweet taste of it upon my palate,
and note the crisp variety of its flights of leaves.
To-day I can only gather it
And put it into my lunch-box,
For I have time for nothing
But the endeavour to balance myself
Upon a broken world.

(Pictures of the Floating World, September 1919)

There are links embedded above to articles on Amy Lowell, the Imagist Movement...etc
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avaland | 1 weitere Rezension | Mar 4, 2013 |
I read the entire book but my dislike for imagist poetry only increased.
 
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