Amy Lowell

About the Author

Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was an American poet and critic, influential in the Imagist movement.  Her best-known collections of poems were A Dome of Many-Colored Glass (1912), Pictures of the Floating World (1919), and What’s O’Clock (1925).  She is remembered for her poetical use of anti-war sentiment, lesbian themes, and the personification of inanimate objects. She was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926.