Amy Lowell Among Her Contemporaries

Author : Carl Rollyson
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781491750193

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Amy Lowell Among Her Contemporaries by Carl Rollyson Pdf

This engaging collection of essays restores Amy Lowells rightful place in the history of American literature. Carl Rollyson, author of several major literary biographies, corrects the distorted and often hostile accounts of Lowell that have appeared in biographies of D. H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and other writers who collaborated with her in establishing the new poetry as an integral part of post World War I American culture. For the first time, a well-rounded portrait of Lowell emerges to contradict the malicious and inaccurate reports of her public and private life. Especially notable is Rollysons discussion of Lowells friendships with women who wrote memoirs about the poet that contradict the sort of prejudice leveled against her by Pound and his circle of writers and critics. Rollysons brief but revealing discussions of Lowells poetry, and his inclusion of the full texts of key poems, makes this volume an authoritative introduction for new readers of one of the 20th centurys important writers. And Rollysons meticulous analysis of several literary biographies also makes a contribution to the study of contemporary life writing.

Author : Carl E. Rollyson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 145020080X

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Amy Lowell Among Her Contemporaries by Carl E. Rollyson Pdf

This engaging collection of essays restores Amy Lowell's rightful place in the history of American literature. Carl Rollyson, author of several major literary biographies, corrects the distorted and often hostile accounts of Lowell that have appeared in biographies of D. H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and other writers who collaborated with her in establishing the new poetry as an integral part of post World War I American culture. For the first time, a well-rounded portrait of Lowell emerges to contradict the malicious and inaccurate reports of her public and private life. Especially notable is Rollyson's discussion of Lowell's friendships with women who wrote memoirs about the poet that contradict the sort of prejudice leveled against her by Pound and his circle of writers and critics. Rollyson's brief but revealing discussions of Lowell's poetry, and his inclusion of the full texts of key poems, makes this volume an authoritative introduction for new readers of one of the 20th century's important writers. And Rollyson's meticulous analysis of several literary biographies also makes a contribution to the study of contemporary life writing.

Author : Carl Rollyson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781442223943

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Amy Lowell Anew by Carl Rollyson Pdf

The controversial American poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925), a founding member of the Imagist group that included D. H. Lawrence and H. D., excelled as the impresario for the “new poetry” that became news across the U. S. in the years after World War I. Maligned by T. S. Eliot as the “demon saleswoman” of poetry, and ridiculed by Ezra Pound, Lowell has been treated by previous biographers as an obese, sex-starved, inferior poet who smoked cigars and made a spectacle of herself, canvassing the country on lecture tours that drew crowds in the hundreds for her electrifying performances. In fact, Lowell wrote some of the finest love lyrics of the 20th century and led a full and loving life with her constant companion, the retired actress Ada Russell. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize posthumously in 1926. This provocative new biography, the first in forty years, restores Amy Lowell to her full humanity in an era that, at last, is beginning to appreciate the contributions of gays and lesbians to American’s cultu

Author : Melissa Bradshaw
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351959209

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Amy Lowell, Diva Poet by Melissa Bradshaw Pdf

In her reassessment of Amy Lowell as a major figure in the modern American poetry movement, Melissa Bradshaw uses theories of the diva and female celebrity to account for Lowell's extraordinary literary influence in the early twentieth century and her equally extraordinary disappearance from American letters after her death. Recognizing Amy Lowell as a literary diva, Bradshaw shows, accounts for her commitment to her art, her extravagant self-promotion and self-presentation, and her fame, which was of a kind no longer associated with poets. It also explains the devaluation of Lowell's poetry and criticism, since a woman's diva status is always short-lived and the accomplishments of celebrity women are typically dismissed and trivialized. In restoring Lowell to her place within the American poetic renaissance of the nineteen-teens and twenties, Bradshaw also recovers a vibrant moment in popular culture when poetry enjoyed mainstream popularity, audiences packed poetry readings, and readers avidly followed the honors, exploits, and feuds of their favorite poets in the literary columns of daily newspapers. Drawing on a rich array of letters, memoirs, newspapers, and periodicals, but eschewing the biographical interpretations of her poetry that have often characterized criticism on Lowell, Bradshaw gives us an Amy Lowell who could not be further removed from the lonely victim of ill-health and obesity who appears in earlier book-length studies. Amy Lowell as diva poet takes her rightful place as a powerful writer of modernist verse who achieved her personal and professional goals without capitulating to heteronormative ideals of how a woman should act, think, or appear.

Author : Richard Bradford
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781118896259

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A Companion to Literary Biography by Richard Bradford Pdf

An authoritative review of literary biography covering the seventeenth century to the twentieth century A Companion to Literary Biography offers a comprehensive account of literary biography spanning the history of the genre across three centuries. The editor – an esteemed literary biographer and noted expert in the field – has encouraged contributors to explore the theoretical and methodological questions raised by the writing of biographies of writers. The text examines how biographers have dealt with the lives of classic authors from Chaucer to contemporary figures such as Kingsley Amis. The Companion brings a new perspective on how literary biography enables the reader to deal with the relationship between the writer and their work. Literary biography is the most popular form of writing about writing, yet it has been largely neglected in the academic community. This volume bridges the gap between literary biography as a popular genre and its relevance for the academic study of literature. This important work: Allows the author of a biography to be treated as part of the process of interpretation and investigates biographical reading as an important aspect of criticism Examines the birth of literary biography at the close of the seventeenth century and considers its expansion through the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries Addresses the status and writing of literary biography from numerous perspectives and with regard to various sources, methodologies and theories Reviews the ways in which literary biography has played a role in our perception of writers in the mainstream of the English canon from Chaucer to the present day Written for students at the undergraduate level, through postgraduate and doctoral levels, as well as academics, A Companion to Literary Biography illustrates and accounts for the importance of the literary biography as a vital element of criticism and as an index to our perception of literary history.

Author : Adrienne Munich,Melissa Bradshaw
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813533562

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Amy Lowell, American Modern by Adrienne Munich,Melissa Bradshaw Pdf

A collection of essays that explore the influence, work, and legacy of Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet Amy Lowell.

Author : Elaine Showalter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400034420

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A Jury of Her Peers by Elaine Showalter Pdf

An unprecedented literary landmark: the first comprehensive history of American women writers from 1650 to the present. In a narrative of immense scope and fascination, here are more than 250 female writers, including the famous—Harriet Beecher Stowe, Dorothy Parker, Flannery O’Connor, and Toni Morrison, among others—and the little known, from the early American bestselling novelist Catherine Sedgwick to the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Susan Glaspell. Showalter integrates women’s contributions into our nation’s literary heritage with brilliance and flair, making the case for the unfairly overlooked and putting the overrated firmly in their place.

Author : Amy Lowell
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0813531284

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Selected Poems of Amy Lowell by Amy Lowell Pdf

Amy Lowell (1874-1925), American poet and critic, was one of the most influential and best-known writers of her era. Within a thirteen-year period, she produced six volumes of poetry, two volumes of criticism, a two-volume biography of John Keats, and countless articles and reviews that appeared in many popular periodicals. As a herald of the New Poetry, Lowell saw herself and her kind of work as a part of a newly forged, diverse, American people that registered its consciousness in different tonalities but all in a native idiom. She helped build the road leading to the later works of Allen Ginsberg, May Sarton, Sylvia Plath, and beyond. Except for the few poems that invariably appear in American literature anthologies, most of her writings are out of print. This will be the first volume of her work to appear in decades, and the depth, range, and surprising sensuality of her poems will be a revelation. The poetry is organized according to Lowell's characteristic forms, from traditional to experimental. In each section the works appear in chronological order. Section one contains sonnets and other traditional verse forms. The next section covers her translations and adaptations of Chinese and Japanese poetry, whereby she beautifully renders the spirit of these works. Also included here are several of Lowell's own Asian-influenced poems. Lowell's free, or cadenced verse appears in the third part. The last section provides samples of Lowell's polyphonic prose, an ambitious and vigorous art form that employs all of the resources of poetry. The release of The Selected Poems of Amy Lowell will be a major event for readers who have not been able to find a representative sampling of work from this vigorous, courageous poet who gave voice to an erotic, thoroughly American sensibility.

Author : Alex Davis,Lee M. Jenkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139827645

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The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry by Alex Davis,Lee M. Jenkins Pdf

This Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts. The first part explores the historical and cultural contexts and sexual politics of literary modernism and the avant garde. The chapters in the second part concentrate on individual authors and movements, while the concluding part offers a comprehensive overview of the early reception and subsequent canonisation of modernist poetry. As well as insightful readings of canonical poets, the Companion features extended discussions of poets whose importance is now being increasingly recognised, such as Mina Loy, poets of the Harlem Renaissance, and postcolonial poets in the Caribbean, Africa and India. While modernist poets are often thought of as difficult, these essays will help students to understand and enjoy their experimental, playful and fascinating responses to contemporary social and cultural change and their dialogue with the arts and with each other.

Author : Elizabeth A. Petrino
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0874519071

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Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries by Elizabeth A. Petrino Pdf

An interdisciplinary examination of the poet, her milieu, and the ways she and her contemporaries freed their work from cultural limitations.

Author : Lesley Wheeler
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1572331976

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The Poetics of Enclosure by Lesley Wheeler Pdf

The Poetics of Enclosure provocatively explores interconnections between Dickinson, Moore, H.D., Brooks, Bishop, and Dove in the dual context of their manipulations of the traditional lyric and use of shared images of enclosure ... With frequent reference to male as well as female influences and to poets marginalized by sexuality or race, Wheeler usefully refines what she argues is particular to these poets' shared lyric practices and concerns, and links those concerns to other poetic traditions. --Christianne Miller.

Author : Amy Lowell
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442929265

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Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell Pdf

Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read.

Author : Sonja Samberger
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 3825886166

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Artistic Outlaws by Sonja Samberger Pdf

"The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic", Gertrude Stein wrote in 1926. Unlike male modernists such as T. S. Eliot or Ezra Pound, the modernist women poets Edith Sitwell, Amy Lowell, Stein and H. D. never became "high" modernist models but remained "artistic outlaws". The present study shows how these women were present on the modernist scene but followed their own concepts and struggled to establish their position as modernist women poets. Defying definition, the four poets not only richly contributed to modernism, but were indeed its developers.

Author : John Timberman Newcomb
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780814209585

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Would Poetry Disappear? by John Timberman Newcomb Pdf

Author : Horace Gregory
Publisher : Edinburgh ; New York : T. Nelson
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Poets, American
ISBN : UOM:39015014778966

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Amy Lowell by Horace Gregory Pdf