Amy Lowell — a remark

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“Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.”

Arguing that artistic theories must eventually yield to renewal and experiment · Tendencies in Modern American 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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