Bibliography
- Richard Gresham. 1904. (Novel.)
- A Winged Victory. 1907. (Novel.)
- Cowards. 1917. (Play, published in Drama, 7.)
Studies and Reviews
- Drama, 7 (’17): 325.
Born at Brookline, Massachusetts, 1874. Sister of President Lowell of Harvard, and of Percival Lowell, the astronomer. Distantly related to James Russell Lowell. Educated at private schools. Traveled extensively in Europe as a child. Her visits to Egypt, Greece, and Turkey influenced her development. In 1902, she decided to become a poet and spent eight years studying, without publishing a poem. Her first poem appeared in the Atlantic, 1910.
She is a collector of Keats manuscripts and says that the poet who influenced her most profoundly was Keats. She has also made special study of Chinese poetry.
Suggestions for Reading
1. As Miss Lowell is the principal exponent of the theories of imagism and free verse in this country, careful reading of some of her critical papers leads to a better understanding of her work. Especially valuable are her studies of Paul Fort in her volume entitled Six French Poets, of “H. D.” and John Gould Fletcher in her Tendencies in Modern American Poetry, the prefaces to different volumes of her poems and to the anthologies published under the title Some Imagist Poets (1915, 1916), and her articles in the Dial, 64 (’18): 51 ff., and in Poetry, 3 (’13): 213 ff.