Selected poems of Amy Lowell
Amy Lowell (Author), Melissa Bradshaw (Editor), Adrienne Munich (Editor)
"Amy Lowell (1874-1925), American poet and critic, was one of the most influential and best-known writers of her era. Within a thirteen-year period, she produced six volumes of poetry, two volumes of criticism, a two-volume biography of John Keats, and countless articles and reviews that appeared in many popular periodicals. As a herald of the New Poetry, Lowell saw herself and her kind of work as a part of a newly forged, diverse, American people that registered its consciousness in different tonalities but all in a native idiom. She helped build the road leading to the later works of Allen Ginsberg, May Sarton, Sylvia Plath, and beyond. Except for the few poems that invariably appear in American literature anthologies, most of her writings are out of print. This will be the first volume of her work to appear in decades, and the depth, range, and surprising sensuality of her poems will be a revelation. The poetry is organized according to Lowell's characteristic forms, from traditional to experimental. In each section the works appear in chronological order. Section one contains sonnets and other traditional verse forms. The next section covers her translations and adaptations of Chinese and Japanese poetry, whereby she beautifully renders the spirit of these works. Also included here are several of Lowell's own Asian-influenced poems. Lowell's free, or cadenced verse appears in the third part. The last section provides samples of Lowell's polyphonic prose, an ambitious and vigorous art form that employs all of the resources of poetry"--Publisher
Print Book, English, ©2002
Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, N.J., ©2002
Poetry
xlii, 135 pages ; 23 cm
9780813531274, 9780813531281, 0813531276, 0813531284
49226229
Acknowledgments and Permissions A Note on the Text Introductions ``Let us Shout it Lustily'': Amy Lowell's Career in Context / Melissa Bradshaw Amy lowell, new american poet / Adrienne Munich Chronology I. Traditional Forms and Variations Sonnets, Rhymed Stanzas, and Blank Verse - A Fixed Idea On Carpaccio's Picture: The Dream of St. Ursula The Starling Mirage A Petition In Answer to a Request Eleonora Duse To a Lady of Undeniable Beauty and Practised Charm Before the Altar Apology After Writing ``The Bronze Horses'' Merely Statement Gavotte in D Minor Song for a Viola D'Amore Nuit Blanche On Looking at a Copy of Alice Meynell's Poems, Given Me, Years Ago, by a Friend / The Sisters Adapted Asian Forms and Translations from the Chinese - Aliens The Pond A Lover To a Husband A Year Passes Ephemera Autumn One of the ``Hundred Views of Fuji'' by Hokusai The Fisherman's Wife Outside a Gate In Time of War Li T'ai-po Frosty Evening A Poet's Wife The Return Nuance Autumn Haze Nuit Blanche Again the New Year's Festival Time Nostalgia Afterglow Vespers The Battle to the South of the City, by Li T'ai-po The Retreat of Hsieh Kung, by Li T'ai-po The Terraced Road of the Two-Edged Sword Mountains, by Li T'ai-po Looking at the Moon after Rain, by Li T'ai-po The Lonely Wife, by Li T'ai-po On Hearing the Buddhist Priest of Shu Play His Table-Lute, by Li T'ai-po Parrot Island, by Li T'ai-po Reply to an Unrefined Person Encountered in the Hills, by Li T'ai-po Night Thoughts, by Li T'ai-po In the Province of Lu, to the East of the Stone Gate Mountain, Taking Leave of Tu Fu, by Li T'ai-po A Poem Sent to Tu Fu from Sha Ch'iu Ch'eng, by Li T'ai-po The River Village, by Tu Fu The Sorceress Gorge, by Tu Fu At the Edge of Heaven, Thinking of Li Po, by Tu Fu Sent to Li Po as a Gift, by Tu Fu A Toast for Meng Yun-ch'ing, by Tu Fu The Blue-Green Stream, by Wang Wei Together We Know Happiness, written by a descendant of the founder of the Southern T'ang Dynasty II. Cadenced Verse In a Garden Absence Aubade White and Green The Captured Goddess The Taxi The Blue Scarf The Letter Pine, Beech, and Sunlight Astigmatism The Giver of Stars Bright Sunlight Venus Transiens A Rainy Night Patterns Strain from Stravinsky's Three Pieces ``Grotesques,'' for String Quartet, Second Movement Summer Rain A Decade An Aquarium Thompson's Lunch Room---Grand Central Station Opal Mise en Scene Wakefulness A Bather Madonna of the Evening Flowers from Dreams in War Time A Sprig of Rosemary The Broken Fountain The Weathervane Points South The Artist Vernal Equinox Penumbra September. 1918 Granadilla Carrefour Lilacs Meeting-House Hill Footing Up a Total Paradox Purple Grackles In Excelsis On Reading a Line Underscored by Keats Dissonance Heraldic Attitude under an Elm Tree Sultry The On-looker Poetic Justice Mid-adventure Anecdote Still Life III. Polyphonic Prose Spring Day from Malmaison from Sea-Blue and Blood-Red from Guns As Keys: And the Great Gate Swings Notes to the Poems