About the author:
From the notes to "The Second Book of Modern Verse" (1919, 1920),
edited by Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
Lowell, Amy. Born in Brookline, Mass., Feb. 9, 1874.
Educated at private schools. Author of "A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass", 1912;
"Sword Blades and Poppy Seed", 1914; "Men, Women and Ghosts", 1916;
"Can Grande's Castle", 1918; "Pictures of the Floating World", 1919.
Editor of the three successive collections of "Some Imagist Poets",
1915, '16, and '17, containing the early work of the "Imagist School"
of which Miss Lowell became the leader. This movement, . . .
originated in England, the idea have been first conceived by a young poet
named T. E. Hulme, but developed and put forth by Ezra Pound
in an article called "Don'ts by an Imagist", which appeared
in `Poetry; A Magazine of Verse'. . . . A small group of poets
gathered about Mr. Pound, experimenting along the technical lines suggested,
and a cult of "Imagism" was formed, whose first group-expression was in
the little volume, "Des Imagistes", published in New York in April, 1914.
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