Amy Lowell

By jensonedwards
  • Amy Lowell was born

    Amy Lowell was born

    She was born on Feburary 9, 1874 in Brookline, Massachusetts
  • Amy, mother, and sister wrote Dream Drops or stories from Fairy Land by a dreamer.

    Amy, mother, and sister wrote Dream Drops or stories from Fairy Land by a dreamer.

    In 1887 she, with her mother and sister, wrote Dream Drops or Stories From Fairy Land by a Dreamer, printed privately by the Boston firm Cupples and Hurd.
  • She met an actress that helped get into her poetry career

    She met an actress that helped get into her poetry career

    In 1902 Amy Lowell met an actress named Eleanora Duse which she helped get into her poetry career
  • First poem

    First poem

    Her poem "Fixed Idea" was published in 1910 by the Atlantic Monthly, after which Lowell published individual poems in various journals.
  • Met her lover Ada Dwyer Russell

    Met her lover Ada Dwyer Russell

    Ada Dwyer Russell was one of the girls that Amy Lowell liked (lesbian) They met eachother in 1912
  • First collection was published

    First collection was published

    In october of 1912 she came up with her first collection called A Dome of Many Coloured Glass.
  • First book of Criticism

    First book of Criticism

    Lowell's first book of criticism, Six French Poets in 1915 based on a series of her lectures, was also well received.
  • Art and buisness

    Art and buisness

    In the early 1920s Lowell took a hiatus from the art and business of poetry to pen a biography on Keats.
  • Chinese influence

    Chinese influence

    Amy was attracted towards and influenced by Chinese and Japanese poetry.
  • Death of Amy Lowell

    Death of Amy Lowell

    Amy died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 51
  • Awarded after death

    Awarded after death

    Accredited with the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for “What’s O’Clock”