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“What is baseball but a superb epic of man's swiftness and sureness, and his putting forth the utmost of the sobriety and vigour that is in him in an ecstasy of vitality and movement?”

Finding the spirit of epic poetry in an everyday popular spectacle · Essay, Why We Should Read Poetry

About Amy Lowell

Amy Lowell

9 February 1874–12 May 1925

Amy Lawrence Lowell emerged from the staid drawing rooms of Boston's Brahmin society to become one of the most controversial and influential poets of early twentieth-century America. Born on February 9, 1874, into one of New England's most distinguished families, she would spend her fifty-one years challenging…

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