Part of the Imagist School, poet Amy Lowell, won a Pulitzer Price for her poetry in 1926. She was an American cigar-smoking proponent of free-verse modernism in open rebellion against her Boston upbringing. She rejected Victorian attitudes and wrote poems about the situations around her. Lowell refers to these poems as stories. The collection includes Figurines in Old Saxe, Bronze Tablets, War Pictures, The Overgrown Pasture, and Clocks Tick a Century.