{\b Amy Lowell}.

{\b Date of Birth}.: 9 February 1874

{\b Date of Death}.: 12 May 1925

{\b Works}.

A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass  (1912), Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds  (1914), 
Six French Poets  (1915), Tendencies in Modern American Poetry  (1917), Can 
Grande's Castle  (1918), Some Imagist Poets: An Annual Anthology  (1915-17), 
Pictures of the Floating World  (1919), and a biography of John Keats  (1925).

{\b Featured Works}.

'Crowned', 'A Lady', 'Patterns', 'Venus Transiens', 'Apology', 'Madonna of the 
Evening Flowers'.

{\b General Comment}.

Amy Lowell was an American Imagist poet. Briefly, this poetry, through the 
guidelines laid down by Ezra Pound and F.S. Flint, sought to intensify 
concentration on the represented image, to use only language which was sharp 
and clear, and to model the rhythm along musical lines. Lowell was born in 
Brookline, Massachusetts into a family of wealthy intellectuals and grew up on 
a ten-acre estate called 'Sevenels'. She was educated at home in the 
seven-thousand-book-lined library at Sevenels. She was the sister of Abbott 
Lowell and Percival Lowell, the former going on to become president of 
Harvard, and the latter an eminent astronomer.  Ada Russell was her long-time 
companion and personal secretary. 

In 1902 she decided to become a full-time poet. Eight years later one of her 
poems, 'Fixed Idea', was published in the Atlantic Monthly  (August 1910), but 
at that time she was better known as a member of the prestigious Lowell family 
than as a poet. In 1912 she published A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass  which 
suffered from being too conventional in style. She went on to become an ardent 
advocate of the importance and seriousness of poetry, taking over the 
anthology side of the Imagist movement, and its popularisation in America. Her 
prominence in society and amongst literary types gave her access to poetry 
societies, publishing offices and public platforms.  She published three 
Imagist anthologies which contributed to her mission to reconstruct American 
poetry and its reception by the public. Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds  (1914) 
saw a radical change in her own poetic style along Imagist principles, and 
this was followed by Can Grande's Castle  (1918). In addition, she published 
numerous reviews, and has 650 poems preserved in published volumes. She died 
in Brookline Massachusetts.