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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.,
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.
In 1913 Ezra Pound in his New Freewoman review commended Fletcher for the individuality of rhythm in his first volume of poems. [5] Those early works include Irradiations: Sand and Spray (1915), and Goblins and Pagodas (1916). Amy Lowell said of him, "No one is more absolute master of the rhythm of verse libre". [6]
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Bishop's influence over Lowell can be seen at work in at least two of Lowell's poems: "The Scream" (inspired by Bishop's short story "In the Village") and "Skunk Hour" (inspired by Bishop's poem "The Armadillo"), and the scholar Thomas Travisano notes, more broadly, that "Lowell's Life Studies and For the Union Dead, his most enduringly popular ...
James Russell Lowell (/ ˈ l oʊ əl /; February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat.He is associated with the fireside poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets that rivaled the popularity of British poets.
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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 ...