Книга: Amy Lowell «Amy Lowell: Selected Poems»
Производитель: "Неизвестный" Amy Lowell: Selected Poems ISBN:9781931082709 Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2015)
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Amy Lowell
Infobox Writer
name = Amy Lawrence Lowell
birthname = Amy Lawrence Lowell
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deathdate = death date and age|1925|5|12|1874|2|9|mf=y
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Amy Lawrence Lowell (
Personal life and career
Lowell was born into
She never attended college because her family did not deem it proper for a woman, but she compensated for this with avid reading and near-obsessive book-collecting. She lived as a socialite and travelled widely, turning to poetry in 1902 after being inspired by a performance of
Lowell not only published her own work but also that of other writers. According to Untermyer, she "captured" the Imagist movemnt from Ezra Pound. Pound threatened to sue her for bringing out her three-volume series "Some Imagist Poets", and thereafter called the American Imagists the "Amygist" movement. Pound criticized her as not an imagist but merely a rich woman who was able to financially assist the publication of imagist poetry. She said that Imagism was weak before she took it up, whereas others said it became weak after Pound's "exile" towards
Throughout her working life Lowell was a promoter of both contemporary and historical poets. Her book "Fir-Flower Poets" was a poetical re-working of literal translations of the works of ancient Chinese poets, notably Li T'Ai-po (A.D. 701-762). Her writing also included critical works on French literature. When she died she was attempting to complete her two-volume biography of
Lowell was a short but imposing figure who kept her hair in a bun and wore a
Though she sometimes wrote sonnets, Lowell was an early adherent to the "free verse" method of poetry and one of the major champions of this method. Untermeyer writes that "She was not only a disturber but an awakener." In many poems she dispenses with line breaks so that the work looks like prose on the page.
Lowell died of a
In the post-World War II years, Lowell, like other women writers, was largely forgotten, but with the renascence of the
Additional sources of interest in Lowell today come from the
External links
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* [http://www.blackcatpoems.com/l/amy_lowell.html Poems by Amy Lowell] An extensive collection of Lowell's poetry.
* [http://reverent.org/poetry_or_parody.html Poetry or parody?] A quiz.
* March 26, 1916, New York Times, [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A06E6DD113CE733A25755C2A9659C946796D6CF How Does the New Poetry Differ from the Old?; Amy Lowell Laments the Lack of Authoritative Criticism in America -- Says No One Should Make a Living by Writing]
Publication
* Amy Lowell: Complete Poetical Works and Selected Writings in 6 vols., edited by Naoki Ohnishi, Kyoto: Eureka Press. ISBN 978-4-902454-29-1
* The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell with an introduction by Louis Untermeyer. Boston, Massachusetts: The Houghton Mifflin Company (The Riverside Press, Cambridge), 1955.
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