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Lowell's partner Ada Dwyer Russell was the subject of many of her romantic poems.. Lowell's partner Ada Dwyer Russell was the subject of many of Lowell's romantic poems, [21] and Lowell wanted to dedicate her books to Russell, but Russell would not allow that, and relented only once for Lowell's biography of John Keats, in which Lowell wrote, "To A.D.R.,
In 1922, Amy Lowell, a later relative of the Lowell family, wrote a similar book which she titled A Critical Fable after she was lampooned by Robert Frost. In it, she pokes fun at contemporary poets like Frost, Ezra Pound, and T. S. Eliot using the byline "A Poker of Fun". [16]
Amy Lowell (1874–1925), American poet of Imagist school, posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner in 1926; Agnes Miegel (1879–1964), German journalist, writer and poet; Alice Duer Miller (1874–1942), American poet, novelist and screenplay writer; Nellie Burget Miller (1875-1952), American poet, non-fiction writer, dramatist
Other examples of 1920s lesbian literature include poems by Amy Lowell about her partner of over a decade Ada Dwyer Russell. [43] Lowell wanted to dedicate her books to Dwyer who refused as they had to hide the nature of their relationship [44] except for one time in a non-poetry book in which Lowell wrote, "To A.D.R., This, and all my books.
Life Studies is the fourth book of poems by Robert Lowell. Most critics (including Helen Vendler, Steven Gould Axelrod, Adam Kirsch, and others) consider it one of Lowell's most important books, and the Academy of American Poets named it one of their Groundbreaking Books. [1] Helen Vendler called Life Studies Lowell's "most original book."
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One of Lowell's poems, "The Sick Room", has been described as "Dickinsonian". [14] Her poem "The Grave of Keats" was published in the 1874 anthology Poems of Places, edited by former neighbor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [15] Amy Lowell, a descendant of the family, praised Maria Lowell's writing: "That is poetry! It is better than anything her ...
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