1. Amy Lawrence Lowell was an American poet of the imagist school.
21 Facts About Amy Lowell
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Amy Lowell posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.
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Amy Lowell was born on February 9,1874, in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Augustus Lowell and Katherine Bigelow Lowell.
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Amy Lowell considered herself to be developing "masculine" and "ugly" features and she was a social outcast.
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Amy Lowell had a reputation among her classmates for being outspoken and opinionated.
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Amy Lowell never attended college because her family did not consider it proper for a woman to do so.
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Amy Lowell compensated for this lack with avid reading and near-obsessive book collecting.
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Amy Lowell lived as a socialite and travelled widely, turning to poetry in 1902 after being inspired by a performance of Eleonora Duse in Europe.
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Amy Lowell was a lesbian, and in 1912 she met the actress Ada Dwyer Russell, who would become her lover.
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Amy Lowell has been linked romantically to writer Mercedes de Acosta, but the only evidence of any contact between them is a brief correspondence about a planned memorial for Duse.
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Amy Lowell was a short but imposing figure who kept her hair in a bun and wore a pince-nez.
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Amy Lowell publicly smoked cigars, as newspapers of the day frequently mentioned.
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Amy Lowell's admirers defended her even after her death.
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Amy Lowell died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1925, at the age of 51 and is buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.
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Amy Lowell's first published work appeared in 1910 in Atlantic Monthly.
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An additional group of uncollected poems was added to the volume The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell, published in 1955 with an introduction by Untermeyer, who considered himself her friend.
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Amy Lowell's book Fir-Flower Tablets was a poetical re-working of literal translations of the works of ancient Chinese poets, notably Li Tai-po.
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Amy Lowell published not only her own work, but that of other writers.
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Amy Lowell said that Imagism was weak before she took it up, whereas others said it became weak after Pound's "exile" towards Vorticism.
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Amy Lowell admitted to John Livingston Lowes that Russell was the subject of her series of romantic poems titled "Two Speak Together".
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Amy Lowell drew inspiration from her female predecessors in poetry; her poem "The Sisters" explores in depth her thoughts on Sappho, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Emily Dickinson.