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 Brookline, Mass., of the prominent and wealthy...

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 illustrious ancestry. From 1913 until her death in 1925, Lowell...

An oft-quoted remark attributed to poet Amy Lowell applies to both her determined personality and her sense of humor: "God made me a business woman," Lowell is reported to have quipped, "and I made myself a poet." During a career that spanned just over...

Edited by Adrienne Munich and Melissa Bradshaw. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004. 208 pp. $60.00/$23.95 paper. This welcome collection of essays marks an important moment in modernist criticism. Since her death in 1925, Amy Lowell has been subjected to an almost systematic...

The Amy Lowell House, a 151-unit elderly housing development in Boston's Charles River Park complex, will remain largely as affordable housing. The Massachusetts Housing Finance Agency provided The Community Builders Inc. with $11.3 million in tax-exempt financing to acquire the development. Eighty percent of...

In the following excerpt, Ruihley analyzes Lowell's later poetry, describing developments of form, style, and theme.

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.

In the following essay, Hughes surveys Lowell's literary career, evaluating each of her poetry collections and critical works.