Amy Lowell

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Amy Lowell (born February 9, 1874 in Brookline , Massachusetts , † May 12, 1925 there ) was an American suffragette and poet. She received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926 .

Life

She came from one of the most distinguished families in Boston . Her brother Percival Lowell became famous as an astronomer. The family was so filthy rich that it was said of them, "The Cabots only talk to the Lowells, and the Lowells only talk to God." Another brother, Abbott Lawrence Lowell , made it to the position of President of Harvard University .

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

Lowell's grave in Cambridge , Massachusetts

In 1912 she met Ada Dwyer Russell, who became her partner. The couple traveled to England and became friends with Ezra Pound , who was a major influence on Lowell's work. Their modernist poetry is therefore often called the Pound to life imagism assigned. Pound herself found her so idiosyncratic that he said that Lowell was the only representative of "amygism".

Amy Lowell impressed with her physical stature and self-confident demeanor. As an aging lady of life, she constantly smoked cigars. Because of a thyroid disease, she fought a hopeless battle against being overweight. Ezra Pound once referred to her as hippopoetess (from hippopotamus , "hippopotamus" and poetess , "poet"). Overall, she led a very idiosyncratic lifestyle: She rarely got up before 1 p.m. and her bed always had to have exactly 16 pillows. In hotel suites, she usually had the mirrors draped because she found her own body so unsightly. Her "children" were seven sheepdogs.

In addition to her poetry, Lowell also wrote studies on French poetry and a biography on John Keats . Her work is again enjoying increased attention, especially in feminist literary criticism, especially due to her homoerotic poems that she wrote for her partner. She died of a stroke when she was only 51.

literature

Settings

  • The composer Juan María Solare set lacquer prints for voice and percussion in 2007-08 (the song cycle lasts about 18 minutes).

Web links

Commons : Amy Lowell  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Chosön, the Land of the Morning Calm; a Sketch of Korea . World Digital Library. Retrieved April 30, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Lowell, Amy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poet
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Brookline (Massachusetts)
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1925
Place of death Brookline (Massachusetts)