Amy Lowell Summary

Amy Lowell (1874-1925), American poet, critic, biographer, and flamboyant promoter of the imagist movement, was important in the "poetic renaissance" of the early 20th century.Amy Lowell was born in B... Read more

A descendant of a clan of cultivated New England intellectuals whose forebears, the Lowles of Somersetshire, immigrated to America in the seventeenth century, Amy Lowell took pride in her illustriou... Read more

In the following essay, the anonymous critic studies Lowell's works, focusing on the themes characteristic of her poetry. Amy Lowell towers above most contemporary versifiers like a sort of nin... Read more

In the following essay, Lowell delivers her thoughts on the value of poetry. Why should one read Poetry? That seems to me a good deal like asking: Why should one eat? One eats because one has to, to s... Read more

In the following excerpt, originally published in 1935, Damon examines Lowell's narrative poetry of the years 1914-1918, collected in Men, Women and Ghosts and Can Grande's Castle. [Men,... Read more

In the following excerpt, Ruihley analyzes Lowell's later poetry, describing developments of form, style, and theme. In the years which immediately followed [Amy Lowell's] death, three n... Read more