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Some Imagist Poets An Anthology
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- GenresPoetry
57 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1931
About the author
Amy Lowell
211 books89 followersA leader of the imagists, American poet Amy Lawrence Lowell wrote several volumes, including
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
(1914).
A mother bore Amy into a prominent family. Percival Lowell, her brother and a famous astronomer, predicted the existence of the dwarf planet Pluto; Abbott Lawrence Lowell, another brother, served as president of Harvard University.
The Lowell family deemed not proper attendance at college for a woman, who instead compensated with her avid reading to nearly obsessive book collecting. She lived as a socialite and traveled widely; a performance of Eleonora Duse in Europe inspired her, who afterward turned in 1902. In 1910, Atlantic Monthly first published her work.
She published A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass , apparently first collection, in 1912. In 1912, rumors swirled that supposedly lesbian Lowell reputedly lusted for actress Ada Dwyer Russell, her patron. Her more erotic work subjected Russell. The two women traveled together to England, where Lowell met Ezra Pound, a major influence at once and a major critic of her work. Mercedes de Acosta romantically linked Lowell despite the brief correspondence about a memorial for Duse that never took place, the only evidence that they knew each other.
Lowell, an imposing figure, kept her hair in a bun and wore a pince-nez. She smoked constantly and claimed that cigars lasted longer than cigarettes. A glandular problem kept her perpetually overweight, so that Witter Bynner once called her a "hippopoetess," and Ezra Pound repeated this cruel comment. Her works also criticized French literature, and she penned a biography of John Keats.
People well record fetish of Lowell for Keats. Pound thought merely of a rich woman, who ably assisted financially the publication and afterwards made "exile" towards vorticism. Lowell early adhered to the "free verse" method.
Lowell died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 51 years. In the following year of 1926, people awarded her the posthumous Pulitzer Prize for What's O'Clock . People forgot her works for years, but focus on lesbian themes, collection of love, addressed to Ada Dwyer Russell, and personification of inanimate objects, such as in The Green Bowl , The Red Lacquer Music Stand , and Patterns caused a resurgence of interest.
A mother bore Amy into a prominent family. Percival Lowell, her brother and a famous astronomer, predicted the existence of the dwarf planet Pluto; Abbott Lawrence Lowell, another brother, served as president of Harvard University.
The Lowell family deemed not proper attendance at college for a woman, who instead compensated with her avid reading to nearly obsessive book collecting. She lived as a socialite and traveled widely; a performance of Eleonora Duse in Europe inspired her, who afterward turned in 1902. In 1910, Atlantic Monthly first published her work.
She published A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass , apparently first collection, in 1912. In 1912, rumors swirled that supposedly lesbian Lowell reputedly lusted for actress Ada Dwyer Russell, her patron. Her more erotic work subjected Russell. The two women traveled together to England, where Lowell met Ezra Pound, a major influence at once and a major critic of her work. Mercedes de Acosta romantically linked Lowell despite the brief correspondence about a memorial for Duse that never took place, the only evidence that they knew each other.
Lowell, an imposing figure, kept her hair in a bun and wore a pince-nez. She smoked constantly and claimed that cigars lasted longer than cigarettes. A glandular problem kept her perpetually overweight, so that Witter Bynner once called her a "hippopoetess," and Ezra Pound repeated this cruel comment. Her works also criticized French literature, and she penned a biography of John Keats.
People well record fetish of Lowell for Keats. Pound thought merely of a rich woman, who ably assisted financially the publication and afterwards made "exile" towards vorticism. Lowell early adhered to the "free verse" method.
Lowell died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 51 years. In the following year of 1926, people awarded her the posthumous Pulitzer Prize for What's O'Clock . People forgot her works for years, but focus on lesbian themes, collection of love, addressed to Ada Dwyer Russell, and personification of inanimate objects, such as in The Green Bowl , The Red Lacquer Music Stand , and Patterns caused a resurgence of interest.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
March 5, 2017
This was nowhere near as good as I was expecting, and a lot of the poems were quite similar. I was also surprised at how twee a lot of D.H. Lawrence's work was; frankly, I expected more of him.
January 3, 2020
I liked this Imagist anthology a lot more than Pound's.. It seemed to adopt a less restrictive perspective of Imagism, allowing for a larger variety of poets and poems to be featured. I enjoyed finally dipping my toes into the Imagist pool!
January 26, 2018
You know the story of the Imagist movement: Ezra Pound, on a whim, when sitting in the Tea Room of the British Museum with his ex-girlfriend Hilda from Pennsylvania and her new attachment Richard Aldgington, came up with the term, and later they wrote a manifesto about it, since such things were being done at the time. Then Amy Lowell, a rich New Yorker, took over the idea and formed her own group which excluded Pound, using Imagism as her calling card: Pound called the new(ish) brand of thing they were writing 'Amygism' and started playing around with Wyndham Lewis and what he called the Twentieth Century Vortex.
What you perhaps did not know is that Lowell printed, for three years, a yearly anthology of these later Imagists, and that you can find and read these anthologies. And if you only know the above part of the story, you may not know the following:
-DH Lawrence was a member and did some good work in the volumes (no turtle poems though)
-Aldington himself is a weak-kneed version of HD's stuff
-HD is a rock star: read in a group like this she's pretty clearly the single best thing they have going, and her single poem "Eurydice" stands clear of all challengers as the most clear and intense poem in a group who pride themselves on clarity and intensity
-Lowell herself is not a contemptible poet! Because the rest of the twentieth century hinges more or less around Pound, I had always thought she must be a joke of a byproduct. She's quite good in various formats, including the 'prose poem' that very few people can make anything of.
If nothing else, this is a good historical piece to get hold of.
What you perhaps did not know is that Lowell printed, for three years, a yearly anthology of these later Imagists, and that you can find and read these anthologies. And if you only know the above part of the story, you may not know the following:
-DH Lawrence was a member and did some good work in the volumes (no turtle poems though)
-Aldington himself is a weak-kneed version of HD's stuff
-HD is a rock star: read in a group like this she's pretty clearly the single best thing they have going, and her single poem "Eurydice" stands clear of all challengers as the most clear and intense poem in a group who pride themselves on clarity and intensity
-Lowell herself is not a contemptible poet! Because the rest of the twentieth century hinges more or less around Pound, I had always thought she must be a joke of a byproduct. She's quite good in various formats, including the 'prose poem' that very few people can make anything of.
If nothing else, this is a good historical piece to get hold of.
January 26, 2023
I would give 4 stars to F.S.Flint and Amy Lowell only - I loved ‘Fragment’ and ‘Venus Transiens,’ in particular.
December 26, 2013
Some very nice pieces by HD-- "Sea Iris" most notable for my money. This book also includes "The Mowers" by DH Lawrence-- a really fine piece. (5 stars) Aldington and Fletcher were not very appealing. (3 stars) Amy Lowell's pieces from "A Dome of Many-Colored Glass" were some that I knew and liked. (4 stars)
March 9, 2012
I read the entire book but my dislike for imagist poetry only increased.
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