Part of the Imagist School, poet Amy Lowell, won a Pulitzer Price for her poetry in 1926. She was a cigar-smoking proponent of free-verse modernism in open rebellion against her Boston upbringing. She rejected Victorian attitudes and wrote poems about the situations around her. Poems in the Sword Blades section include The Captured Goddess, The Precinct. Rochester, The Cyclists, Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window, A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M., Astigmatism, The Coal Picker, and others. The Poppy Seed section contains The Great Adventure of Max Breuck, Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris, After...
Part of the Imagist School, poet Amy Lowell, won a Pulitzer Price for her poetry in 1926. She was a cigar-smoking proponent of free-verse modernism in...
Part of the Imagist School, poet Amy Lowell, won a Pulitzer Price for her poetry in 1926. She was an American cigar-smoking proponent of free-verse modernism in open rebellion against her Boston upbringing. She rejected Victorian attitudes and wrote poems about the situations around her. Lowell refers to these poems as stories. The collection includes Figurines in Old Saxe, Bronze Tablets, War Pictures, The Overgrown Pasture, and Clocks Tick a Century.
Part of the Imagist School, poet Amy Lowell, won a Pulitzer Price for her poetry in 1926. She was an American cigar-smoking proponent of free-verse mo...
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Excerpt: ... mirror. Much has come to pass at Malmaison. New rocks and fountains, blocks of carven marble, fluted pillars uprearing antique temples, vases and urns in unexpected places, bridges of stone, bridges of wood, arbours and statues, and a flood of flowers everywhere, new flowers, rare flowers, parterre after parterre of flowers. Indeed, the roses bloom at Malmaison. It is youth, youth untrammeled and advancing, trundling a country ahead of it as though it were a hoop. Laughter, and spur janglings in tessellated vestibules. Tripping of clocked and embroidered stockings in little...
Excerpt: ... mirror. Much has come to pass at Malmaison. New rocks and fountains, blocks of carven marble, fluted pillars uprearing antique temples, v...
Excerpt: ...One day, crazed, she sent For Max. "Come quickly," said her note, "I skip The worst distress until we meet. The world is blank." 39 Through the long sunshine of late afternoon Max went to her. In the pleached alley, lost In bitter reverie, he found her soon. And sitting down beside her, at the cost Of all his secret, "Dear," said he, "what thing So suddenly has happened?" Then, in tears, She told that Grootver, on the following morn, Would come to marry her, and shuddering: "I will die rather, death has lesser fears." Max felt the shackles drop from the oath which he had sworn. 40...
Excerpt: ...One day, crazed, she sent For Max. "Come quickly," said her note, "I skip The worst distress until we meet. The world is blank." 39 Throug...
