Amy Lowell's Life and Poems
Amy Lowell was born in Brookline, Massachusetts in 1874 at Sevenls, her family estate. Her family was Episcopalian, of old New England stock, and at the top of Boston society. She was the youngest of five children. Her eldest brother Abbott Lawrence, a freshman at Harvard at the time of her birth, went on to become the president of the collage. She was born into wealth and prominence. Her paternal grandfather, John Amory Lowell developed the cotton industry of Massachusetts with her maternal grandfather, Abbott Lawrence. John Amory Lowell’s cousin James Russell Lowell was a poet. As a young girl an English governess first tutored her at home, until 1883, when she was sent to a series of private schools. She was far from a model student. She wrote her first poem “Chacago” at the age of nine. She was a precocious child even among prominent family of high achievers and important New England personage. She attended private school until she was seventeen when she left to care for her elderly parents. A university education was out of the question for a Lowell daughter, although not for the sons. So, at home, she undertook a rigorous self-education, reading widely among several thousand books in the library of Sevenl’s.
For books but give the theme, our hearts the rest, In 1916 she published a book of poems called Men, Woman, and Ghosts. This shows Lowell’s pursuit of objectivity through the impression is the most important in the poem of “The Aquarium.” In Pictures of the Floating World, which was published in 1919. Lowell’s lesbianism becomes more noticeable and explicit. They say it is a result of her maturing relationship with Russell and her bad health. It was also written as a celebration of their 10 year anniversary of their relationship. (). You can see this in the poem “The Decade.”
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