Knowra Amy Lowell Amy Lowell Amy Lowell (1874–1925) was an American poet and critic who championed modern poetry and became a leading public advocate of Imagism. Her collections include What’s O’Clock , which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry posthumously in 1926.
Ezra Pound : Ezra Pound was an American poet and critic who helped establish Imagism and promoted literary modernism. Pound coined the name Imagism, then split with Lowell over who represented the movement.
Imagism : Imagism was an early twentieth-century poetry movement that favored precise images, economy of language, and musical rhythm. It is the movement most closely associated with Lowell’s poetry and criticism.
What’s O’Clock : What’s O’Clock is Amy Lowell’s 1925 poetry collection, published shortly before her death and awarded the 1926 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The collection includes some of her late experiments and brought her posthumous recognition.
Des Imagistes : Des Imagistes is the 1914 anthology edited by Ezra Pound that presented an early selection of Imagist poetry. Pound’s anthology preceded Lowell’s series and embodied the movement’s earlier, smaller circle.
H.D. : H.D. was the pen name of American poet Hilda Doolittle, a major Imagist whose early poems were promoted by Ezra Pound. Lowell’s Imagist anthologies helped bring H.D.’s poetry to a wider audience.
Vers libre : Vers libre is poetry whose rhythms are not governed by a regular meter or fixed rhyme scheme. Lowell used free verse while arguing that it should retain an underlying musical cadence.
A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass : A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass is Amy Lowell’s first poetry collection, published in 1912. Its publication marked the beginning of Lowell’s career as a book-length poet.
Imagist Anthologies : Imagist anthologies are collections that presented poems and statements associated with the early twentieth-century Imagist movement. Lowell’s edited volumes broadened the movement’s membership and public reach.
Richard Aldington : Richard Aldington was an English poet, novelist, and critic associated with the early Imagist movement. Aldington appeared alongside Lowell in the movement’s early anthologies.
Cadence : Cadence is the rhythmic rise and fall of speech or poetry, especially its movement beyond strict metrical patterns. Lowell’s theory of cadence distinguished purposeful free verse from prose broken into lines.
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