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The History
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- Amy
Lowell
- Pulitzer
Prize Winning Poet (1926)
- Great
Literary Content
- 1918
Typed Letter Signed
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- Amy Lowell (1874-1925). American Poet of the Imagist School, Pulitzer
Prize Winner (1926, Posthumously). Good Content Typed
Letter Signed, one page quarto, personal imprinted letterhead,
November 6, 1918, Brookline, Massachusetts. Reads in part:
"...Where did you get the idea that I consider you"
tastefully impudent and rarely, if ever, sincere"?
It must be your own fecund imagination which has put such
words into your head... you are one of the few sincere reviewers
there are, and you must realize that spontaneous reactions
such as yours are the things which make it worth while for
the poet to write... Amy Lowell".
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- Lowell was born to a prominent
Massachusetts family. One brother, Percival Lowell, was
a famous astronomer, who predicted the existence of the
planet Pluto; another brother, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, served
as President of Harvard University. She lived as a socialite
and travelled widely, turning to poetry in 1902 after being
inspired by a performance of Eleonora Duse in Europe. Her
first published work appeared in 1910 in Atlantic Monthly.
The first published collection of her poetry, A Dome
of Many-Coloured Glass, appeared two years later. That
same year, she met actress Ada Dwyer Russell, who became
her companion and lover and the subject of her more erotic
work. The two women travelled to England together, where
Lowell met Ezra Pound, who was at once a major influence
and a major critic of her work.
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- Lowell was an imposing figure,
who dressed in clothing considered manly, kept her hair
cropped short, and wore a pince-nez. She smoked cigars constantly,
claiming that they lasted longer than cigarettes. A glandular
problem kept her perpetually overweight, so that Pound once
commented that she was a "hippopoetess." Her writing
also included critical works on French literature and a
biography of John Keats. She died of a cerebral hemorrhage
in 1925. The following year, she was awarded the Pulitzer
Prize for Poetry for What's O'Clock. Forgotten for
years, there has been a resurgence of interest in her work
because of its focus on lesbian themes and her collection
of love poems addressed to Ada Dwyer Russell.
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- A fine letter, and rather
uncommon. Normal folds, otherwise, very good. $395.
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