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A Critical Fable
Title: Dear Sir (or Dear Madam) Who Happen to Glance at This Title-Page Printed You'll See to Enhance Its Aesthetic Attraction, Pray Buy, if You're Able, This Excellent Bargain: a Critical Fable Publisher: Houghton Mifflin and company Publication date: 1922 Subjects: American poetry Biography
99 pages, Hardcover
About the author
Amy Lowell
196 books88 followersA leader of the imagists, American poet Amy Lawrence Lowell wrote several volumes, including
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed
(1914).
A mother bore Amy into a prominent family. Percival Lowell, her brother and a famous astronomer, predicted the existence of the dwarf planet Pluto; Abbott Lawrence Lowell, another brother, served as president of Harvard University.
The Lowell family deemed not proper attendance at college for a woman, who instead compensated with her avid reading to nearly obsessive book collecting. She lived as a socialite and traveled widely; a performance of Eleonora Duse in Europe inspired her, who afterward turned in 1902. In 1910, Atlantic Monthly first published her work.
She published A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass , apparently first collection, in 1912. In 1912, rumors swirled that supposedly lesbian Lowell reputedly lusted for actress Ada Dwyer Russell, her patron. Her more erotic work subjected Russell. The two women traveled together to England, where Lowell met Ezra Pound, a major influence at once and a major critic of her work. Mercedes de Acosta romantically linked Lowell despite the brief correspondence about a memorial for Duse that never took place, the only evidence that they knew each other.
Lowell, an imposing figure, kept her hair in a bun and wore a pince-nez. She smoked constantly and claimed that cigars lasted longer than cigarettes. A glandular problem kept her perpetually overweight, so that Witter Bynner once called her a "hippopoetess," and Ezra Pound repeated this cruel comment. Her works also criticized French literature, and she penned a biography of John Keats.
People well record fetish of Lowell for Keats. Pound thought merely of a rich woman, who ably assisted financially the publication and afterwards made "exile" towards vorticism. Lowell early adhered to the "free verse" method.
Lowell died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 51 years. In the following year of 1926, people awarded her the posthumous Pulitzer Prize for What's O'Clock . People forgot her works for years, but focus on lesbian themes, collection of love, addressed to Ada Dwyer Russell, and personification of inanimate objects, such as in The Green Bowl , The Red Lacquer Music Stand , and Patterns caused a resurgence of interest.
A mother bore Amy into a prominent family. Percival Lowell, her brother and a famous astronomer, predicted the existence of the dwarf planet Pluto; Abbott Lawrence Lowell, another brother, served as president of Harvard University.
The Lowell family deemed not proper attendance at college for a woman, who instead compensated with her avid reading to nearly obsessive book collecting. She lived as a socialite and traveled widely; a performance of Eleonora Duse in Europe inspired her, who afterward turned in 1902. In 1910, Atlantic Monthly first published her work.
She published A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass , apparently first collection, in 1912. In 1912, rumors swirled that supposedly lesbian Lowell reputedly lusted for actress Ada Dwyer Russell, her patron. Her more erotic work subjected Russell. The two women traveled together to England, where Lowell met Ezra Pound, a major influence at once and a major critic of her work. Mercedes de Acosta romantically linked Lowell despite the brief correspondence about a memorial for Duse that never took place, the only evidence that they knew each other.
Lowell, an imposing figure, kept her hair in a bun and wore a pince-nez. She smoked constantly and claimed that cigars lasted longer than cigarettes. A glandular problem kept her perpetually overweight, so that Witter Bynner once called her a "hippopoetess," and Ezra Pound repeated this cruel comment. Her works also criticized French literature, and she penned a biography of John Keats.
People well record fetish of Lowell for Keats. Pound thought merely of a rich woman, who ably assisted financially the publication and afterwards made "exile" towards vorticism. Lowell early adhered to the "free verse" method.
Lowell died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 51 years. In the following year of 1926, people awarded her the posthumous Pulitzer Prize for What's O'Clock . People forgot her works for years, but focus on lesbian themes, collection of love, addressed to Ada Dwyer Russell, and personification of inanimate objects, such as in The Green Bowl , The Red Lacquer Music Stand , and Patterns caused a resurgence of interest.
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January 23, 2022
Amy Lowell is a SAVAGE
she litterally wrote a masterpiece of verse basically just roasting and dissing the shit outta the poets and poetess in her generation and since she knew the book will get so much heat she published it under an anonymous but her skill and way of writing was so revolutionary at that time that once said poets who've been mentioned read it they all guessed it was her immediately which I think is the funniest thing
I'm not joking when I say every rapper in the 21st century should read this book so they might get one or two good things added to their rhyming encyclopedia
as of me I didn't know whether I should be in absolute awe of this rhythmic masterpiece or just laughing my ass off at her witty yet carefully crafted diss
I've never been more pleased about being a literature nerd than before now, what a brilliant experience!
she litterally wrote a masterpiece of verse basically just roasting and dissing the shit outta the poets and poetess in her generation and since she knew the book will get so much heat she published it under an anonymous but her skill and way of writing was so revolutionary at that time that once said poets who've been mentioned read it they all guessed it was her immediately which I think is the funniest thing
I'm not joking when I say every rapper in the 21st century should read this book so they might get one or two good things added to their rhyming encyclopedia
as of me I didn't know whether I should be in absolute awe of this rhythmic masterpiece or just laughing my ass off at her witty yet carefully crafted diss
I've never been more pleased about being a literature nerd than before now, what a brilliant experience!
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