Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell was born in 1874 in Brookline, Massachusetts, into a patrician Boston family: one of her brothers was an astronomer, the other would become president of Harvard. She did not attend university and educated herself in the seven thousand volumes of the family library. She published her first collection at thirty-eight, went to London in 1913 to meet Ezra Pound and the Imagists, and then edited the group's anthologies. She toured the country giving lectures, lived with the actress Ada Dwyer Russell, smoked cigars and died in Brookline in 1925.

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• PoetrySword Blades and Poppy SeedAmy Lowell · 1914Literature