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  • Mallarmé in France, and later the “imagist” poets such as Amy Lowell in America, all showed the influence of impressionist painting and music.

    IMPRESSIONISM IN ART THOMAS MUNRO 1968

  • Although Ms. Holland did not attend her high school graduation in 1950, she was recognized for her poetry and is pictured in the yearbook with the subtitle, "Wilson's Amy Lowell," a reference to the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.

    Author Barbara Holland, 77 Megan Buerger 2010

  • He was a smooth operator, Archie was—writing fawning letters to Amy Lowell, and to Hemingway, and to Ezra Pound, the source of all evil.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

  • And here is an excerpt from the poem "Lilacs" by our own Amy Lowell:

    Archive 2009-05-01 elena maria vidal 2009

  • The poet Amy Lowell was in the practice of renting five rooms in any hotel she booked into, so as to create quiet above, below and on either side.

    Thackeray’s Brain (and Other Literary Curiosities) - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • For the record, the other imagists were: Pound's sometime girlfriend Hilda Doolittle, aka HD, and her husband Richard Aldington; FS Flint; John Gould Fletcher; and, a late jumper on the bandwagon, the plump and plutocratic Amy Lowell.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • Jean Untermeyer envisioned a career as lieder singer, but intimacy with writers — Sara Teasdale, Amy Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost — led her to absorb poetry (as she put it) “by osmosis.”

    Jean Starr Untermeyer. 2009

  • And here is an excerpt from the poem "Lilacs" by our own Amy Lowell:

    Lilacs elena maria vidal 2009

  • Her later poems explore love, death, and loss, seeking regeneration through reflection and self-discipline, revealing, as Amy Lowell asserted, “the heart of a woman, naked and serious, beautiful and unashamed.”

    Jean Starr Untermeyer. 2009

  • He was a smooth operator, Archie was—writing fawning letters to Amy Lowell, and to Hemingway, and to Ezra Pound, the source of all evil.

    THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009

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