Amy Lowell (1874–1925) Patterns LINKS Poetry of Amy Lowell http://www.sappho.com/poetry/historical/a_lowell.html This page on Lowell includes a brief biography and several of her works online, collected at a site devoted to lesbian poetry. BIOGRAPHY Amy Lowell (1874–1925) Born to a prominent family in Brookline, Massachusetts, Lowell was privately educated. After the death of her parents, she inherited the family's ten-acre estate, including a staff of servants and a well-stocked library. Lowell wrote a great deal of undistinguished poetry that, unfortunately, prejudiced critics and readers against her better work. While traveling abroad, she became associated with the Imagists, a group of English and American poets in London who felt that sharply realized images gave poetry its power, and she gained recognition promoting their work in America after 1913. Her first collection of poems, A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass, appeared in 1912. Though her poetry never reached a wide audience, her criticism helped shape American poetic tastes of the time.