Kategoria BISAC: Poetry >> General

The most comprehensive, up-to-date, and user-friendly presentation of the last, and perhaps best, works of the greatest English poet of the later seventeenth century.

• Substantial explanatory annotation to the poems, comprising explanations of contemporary references and literary allusions, details of Dryden's handling of the original texts in his translations, and extensive glossing.
• A carefully modernized text of the poems.
• Experienced author team

This set is a complete collection of the poetic works of Amy Lowell, in a facsimile reprint of the first editions. Amy Lowell was intrigued with Japanese art and culture due to the influence of her brother Percival, a pioneering American Japanologist. She started writing poems in her late twenties, including many with Japanese subjects at the core. Throughout her life she continued to publish poetry, and all ten volumes are collected here. She was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize, and though overlooked for many years there has been a resurgence of interest in Lowell by recent...