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“The desire to 'quintessentialize,' to head-up an emotion until it burns white-hot, seems to be an integral part of the modern temper.”

Describing modern poetry as an art of concentrated emotional intensity · Preface, Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

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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