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Author Description A leader of the imagists, American poet <b>Amy Lawrence Lowell</b> wrote several volumes, including <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3133201.Sword_Blades_and_Poppy_Seed" title="Sword Blades and Poppy Seed" rel="nofollow noopener">Sword Blades and Poppy Seed</a> </i> (1914). <br /><br />A mother bore Amy into a prominent family. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/126980.Percival_Lowell" title="Percival Lowell" rel="nofollow noopener">Percival Lowell</a>, her brother and a famous astronomer, predicted the existence of the dwarf planet Pluto; <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/19180672.Abbott_Lawrence_Lowell" title="Abbott Lawrence Lowell" rel="nofollow noopener">Abbott Lawrence Lowell</a>, another brother, served as president of Harvard University.<br /><br />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 <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5505489.Eleonora_Duse" title="Eleonora Duse" rel="nofollow noopener">Eleonora Duse</a> in Europe inspired her, who afterward turned in 1902. In 1910, <i>Atlantic Monthly</i> first published her work. <br /><br />She published <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11438204.A_Dome_of_Many_Coloured_Glass" title="A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass" rel="nofollow noopener">A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass</a> </i>, apparently first collection, in 1912. In 1912, rumors swirled that supposedly lesbian Lowell reputedly lusted for actress <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Ada%20Dwyer%20Russell" title="Ada Dwyer Russell" rel="nofollow noopener">Ada Dwyer Russell</a>, her patron. Her more erotic work subjected Russell. The two women traveled together to England, where Lowell met <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/30055.Ezra_Pound" title="Ezra Pound" rel="nofollow noopener">Ezra Pound</a>, a major influence at once and a major critic of her work. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/115031.Mercedes_de_Acosta" title="Mercedes de Acosta" rel="nofollow noopener">Mercedes de Acosta</a> romantically linked Lowell despite the brief correspondence about a memorial for Duse that never took place, the only evidence that they knew each other. <br /><br />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 <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/59991.Witter_Bynner" title="Witter Bynner" rel="nofollow noopener">Witter Bynner</a> once called her a "hippopoetess," and Ezra Pound repeated this cruel comment. Her works also criticized French literature, and she penned a biography of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11978.John_Keats" title="John Keats" rel="nofollow noopener">John Keats</a>.<br /><br />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. <br /><br />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 <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3279616.What_s_O_Clock" title="What's O'Clock" rel="nofollow noopener">What's O'Clock</a> </i>. People forgot her works for years, but focus on lesbian themes, collection of love, addressed to <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=Ada%20Dwyer%20Russel" title="Ada Dwyer Russel" rel="nofollow noopener">Ada Dwyer Russel</a>l, and personification of inanimate objects, such as in <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23790534.The_Green_Bowl" title="The Green Bowl" rel="nofollow noopener">The Green Bowl</a> </i>, <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=The%20Red%20Lacquer%20Music%20Stand" title="The Red Lacquer Music Stand" rel="nofollow noopener">The Red Lacquer Music Stand</a> </i>, and <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50997029.Patterns" title="Patterns" rel="nofollow noopener">Patterns</a> </i> caused a resurgence of interest.

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