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Amy Lowell
1874–1925
A bold, prolific voice in early modern poetry, she helped bring Imagism to a wider American audience and later won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry after her death. Born into a prominent Boston family, she turned fierce self-education and formidable energy into a remarkably productive literary life.
6 Audiobooks
A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
by Amy Lowell
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
by Amy Lowell
Some Imagist Poets: An Anthology
by Richard Aldington, John Gould Fletcher, F. S. (Frank Stewart) Flint, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, Amy Lowell
Men, Women and Ghosts
by Amy Lowell
Some Imagist Poets, 1916: An Annual Anthology
by Richard Aldington, John Gould Fletcher, F. S. (Frank Stewart) Flint, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence, Amy Lowell
Can Grande's castle
by Amy Lowell
About the author
Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, in 1874, Amy Lowell became one of the most visible American poets of the early 20th century. She is closely associated with Imagism, the movement that favored clear, exact language and fresh musical rhythms, and she also worked as a critic, lecturer, editor, and translator.
Lowell devoted herself intensely to poetry after encountering modern verse in her thirties. Over a relatively short career, she published hundreds of poems and several important books, while also championing other modern poets through lectures, essays, and anthologies. Her work ranged from tightly shaped lyrics to experiments in free verse and what she called "polyphonic prose."
She died in 1925, and in 1926 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for What's O'Clock. Today she is remembered not only for her own poems, but also for the energy and influence she brought to modern poetry in the United States.