ENGL 262: American Moderns (HC) Fall 2015

For decades, the work of one of America's most influential poets, 1925 Pulitzer Prize-winner Amy Lowell (1874–1925), has been largely overlooked. This vigorous, courageous poet gave voice to an erotic, thoroughly American sensibility. Cigar-smoker, Boston Brahmin, lesbian, impresario, entrepreneur, and prolific poet, Lowell heralded the rush of an American poetic flowering. A best-selling poet as well as a wildly popular lecturer, she was a respected authority on modern poetry, forging the path that led to the works of Allen Ginsberg, May Sarton, Sylvia Plath, and beyond.

See, in particular:
*Introduction: Ezra Pound and the Making of Modernism," pp. 3–16
*The Imagist Decade, 1910-1920, pp. 46–63