Excerpt from Amy Lowell: Sketches Biographical and Critical
Sketch of Her Life and Her Place in Contemporary American Literature
By Richard Hunt
This biographical resume of Miss Amy Lowell is given in response to a desire on the part of many readers "to know something more" about the poet and critic whose genius has been such a stimulating element in the modern poetry renaissance.
The Lowell family seems to have had more than a normal quota of literary gentlemen. The first colonist, Percival Lowell, a merchant of Bristol, Somerset, England, who arrived in Newburyport in 1637, wrote an ode on the death of Governor Winthrop which contains the following naive quatrain:
"Here you have Lowell's loyalty,
Penned with slender skill,
And with it no good poetry,
But certainly good will."
Miss Lowell's great-grandfather, John Lowell, a direct descendant of this gentleman, gained considerable local fame by his newspaper articles signed "The Boston Rebel" and "The Norfolk Farmer."
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