Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell ( born February 9, 1874 in Brookline, Massachusetts, † May 12, 1925 ibid ) was an American women's rights activist and poet. She received the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

Life

She came from one of the noblest families of Boston. Her brother Percival Lowell became famous as an astronomer. The family was so filthy rich that it was said of her: ". The Cabots speak only to the Lowells and the Lowells speak only to God " Another brother, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, brought it up to the president of Harvard University.

She herself did not study, but read a comprehensive education and began to compose himself. 1910 some of her poems were first published in the Atlantic Monthly. In 1912 she published her first book of poems A Dome of Many - Coloured Glass. The band was only a moderate success, what Amy Lowell hurt deeply. 1926 she was awarded for the band What's O'Clock posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.

In 1912 she met Ada Dwyer Russell, who became her lifelong companion. The couple traveled to England, where he completed friendship with Ezra Pound, who exercised a great influence on Lowell's work. Your modernist poetry is therefore often associated with the launched of Pound Imagism. Pound himself found it so idiosyncratic that he meant, Lowell put the sole representative of the " Amygismus " dar.

Amy Lowell was impressed by their physical stature and her confident manner. As an aging courtesan she constantly smoked cigars. Because thyroid disease she fought a losing battle against obesity. Ezra Pound once described them as hippopoetess ( from hippopotamus, " hippopotamus " and poetess, " poet "). Overall, you led a very unconventional lifestyle: She was rarely present before 13 clock and her bed had to be always equipped with exactly 16 pillows. In hotel suites they had usually impose the mirror, as she found her own body as unsightly. Your "children" were seven shepherds.

In addition to her poetry Lowell also wrote studies of French poetry and a biography of John Keats. Her work enjoys particularly in feminist literary criticism again increased attention, this particular whether their homoerotic poems that she wrote for her partner. She died at only 51 years of a stroke.