Amy Lowell Among Her Contemporaries

This engaging collection of essays restores Amy Lowell’s rightful place in the history of American literature. Carl Rollyson, author of several major literary biographies, corrects the distorted and often hostile accounts of Lowell that have appeared in biographies of D. H. Lawrence, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and other writers who collaborated with her in establishing the “new poetry” as an integral part of post World War I American culture. For the first time, a well-rounded portrait of Lo...