ited by Jessie B. Rittenhouse.

Lowell, Amy. Born in Brookline, Mass., Feb. 9, 1874. Educated at
private schools. Author of "A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass", 1912;
"Sword Blades and Poppy Seed", 1914; "Men, Women and Ghosts", 1916; "Can
Grande's Castle", 1918; "Pictures of the Floating World", 1919. Editor
of the three successive collections of "Some Imagist Poets", 1915, '16,
and '17, containing the early work of the "Imagist School" of which Miss
Lowell became the leader. This movement,... originated in England,
the idea have been first conceived by a young poet named T. E. Hulme,
but developed and put forth by Ezra Pound in an article called "Don'ts
by an Imagist", which appeared in `Poetry; A Magazine of Verse'. ...
A small group of poets gathered about Mr. Pound, experimenting along the
technical lines suggested, and a cult of "Imagism" was formed, whose
first group-expression was in the little volume, "Des Imagistes",
published in New York in April, 1914. Miss Lowell did not come actively
into the movement until after that time, but once she had entered it,
she became its leader, and it was chiefly through her effort in America
that the movement attained so much prominence and so influenced the
trend of poetry for the years immediately succeeding. Miss Lowell many
times, in admirable articles, stated the principles upon which Imagism
is based, notably in the Preface to "Some Imagist Poets" and in the
Preface to the second series, in 1916. She also elaborated it much more
fully in her volume, "Tendencies in Modern American Poetry", 1917, in
the articles pertaining to the work of "H.D." and John Gould Fletcher.
In her own creative work, however, Miss Lowell did most to establish the
possibilities of the Imagistic idea and of its modes of presentation,
and opened up many interesting avenues of poetic form. Her volume, "Can
Grande's Castle", is devoted to work in the medium which she styled
"Polyphonic Prose" and contains some of her finest work, particularly
"The Bronze Horses".

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