Amy Lowell, American Modern

This volume presents the most sustained examination of this prolific poet to date. Essays by a transatlantic group of literary critics and scholars explore the varied contributions of Lowell as a woman poet, a modernist, and a significant force behind the literary debates of early twentieth-century poetics. In addition to placing Lowell in her proper historical context, contributors demonstrate her centrality to current critical and theoretical discussions. Amy Lowell, American Modern returns this influential poet to conversation and to literary history„owhere she belongs.