Amy Lowell

Standard Name: Lowell, Amy

Connections

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Wealth and Poverty Harriet Shaw Weaver
During 1914, the printing of the journal cost HSW £337, while subscription had brought in only £37. She routinely sank £300 a year in the journal. Gradually she was forced to cut printing orders, switch...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Amabel Williams-Ellis
Williams-Ellis divided her text into five sections according to audience, respectively written For All, For Philosophers, For Missionaries, For Critics, and For Readers. The last section consists of short studies...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elaine Feinstein
Feinstein follows Lawrence from his early aspiration to be a spokesman for women to his later mounting rage against women's desires to use their minds and express their individuality.
Feinstein, Elaine. Lawrence’s Women. HarperCollins.
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Regarding it as impossible to...
Textual Production H. D.
During her London years HD also did important work (with Amy Lowell and Richard Aldington ) on the three Imagist anthologies of 1915-17, and with the latter she edited the Poets' Translation Series for the...
Textual Production Dora Marsden
Assistant editors were Richard Aldington and Leonard Compton-Rickett , and later H. D. (when Aldington went to war in June 1916) and T. S. Eliot (from July 1917). Contributors of creative work and critical reviews...
Textual Production Dora Marsden
But DM 's involvement with The Egoist began to slacken shortly after its début. This was in part because of her distance from London (in Southport), her desire to focus on her philosophical writing...
Textual Production Bryher
As W. Bryher, Bryher published a 48-page pamphlet, Amy Lowell : A Critical Appreciation.
Contemporary Authors. Gale Research.
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Hanscombe, Gillian, and Virginia L. Smyers. Writing for Their Lives: The Modernist Women, 1910-1940. Women’s Press.
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OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Textual Features Dora Marsden
A marked difference separating The New Freewoman from its predecessor was its increased literary content, at first secured mainly by Rebecca West . West recruited Ezra Pound to The New Freewoman after meeting him at...
Textual Features Edith Sitwell
The English edition appeared the following year. Her choice for inclusion is, as usual, idiosyncratic. She begins well before Chaucer , with anonymous early religious poems in which may be heard, she writes, the creaking...
Textual Features Bryher
As Amy Lowell notes in her preface to Development, Nancy's literary growth is both shaped and evidenced by her engagement with modern French poets and Imagist principles. Of to the latter Lowell writes that...
Textual Features Bryher
This collection marked Bryher's entry into modernism. Charting the constantly recurring, specifically Greek images, colours, and other motifs in Bryher's poems, Diana Collecott links them to H. D. 's poetry, especially The Contest and Hipparchia...
Reception Bryher
Bryher remained especially satisfied with her Review notice on Amy Lowell 's Tendencies in Modern American Poetry (1917), which, she writes, was incoherent with enthusiasm . . . but I am still inordinately proud that...
Publishing Dora Marsden
Plans were afoot to relaunch The Freewoman shortly after it collapsed in its first form. When Marsden retreated to Southport for health reasons, Rebecca West acted as liaison between her and supporters in the Freewoman Discussion Circle
Literary responses Mina Loy
ML 's free verse and sexual explicitness caused a sensation in New York. In his 1925 autobiography, Alfred Kreymborg remembered that [d]etractors shuddered at Mina Loy's subject-matter and derided her elimination of punctuation marks...
Leisure and Society Bryher
Publishing between 1914 and 1920, Bryher wrote through a range of names, from Annie Winifred Ellerman , through A. W. Ellerman, Winifred Bryher, and W. Bryher, to, finally, Bryher.
Collecott, Diana. H.D. and Sapphic Modernism, 1910-1950. Cambridge University Press, http://Rutherford HSS.
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She...

Timeline

Later 1925: Amy Lowell's final volume of poetry appeared:...

Writing climate item

Later 1925

Amy Lowell 's final volume of poetry appeared: What's O'Clock, finished just before her death on 12 May. It was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
Hollenberg, Donna Krolik. “Hidden in Plain Sight”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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, No. 6, pp. 12-13.
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Texts

Bryher, and Amy Lowell. Bryher: Two Novels: Development; and, Two Selves. Editor Winning, Joanne, University of Wisconsin Press, 2000.
Lowell, Amy, and Bryher. “Preface”. Development, Macmillan, 1920, p. ix - xvi.