Selected Poems of Amy Lowell

Melissa Bradshaw is an assistant professor of interdisciplinary humanities at Barat College of DePaul University.Adrienne Munich is a professor of English and womens studies at SUNY Stony Brook. She is the author of Queen Victorias Secrets and Andromedas Chains: Gender and Interpretation in Victorian Literature and Art and coeditor of Arms and the Woman and Remaking Queen Victoria.

• Acknowledgments and Permissions  A Note on the Text     Introductions``Let us Shout it Lustily'': Amy Lowell's Career in Context / Melissa BradshawAmy lowell, new american poet / Adrienne MunichChronology  I. Traditional Forms and VariationsSonnets, Rhymed Stanzas, and Blank Verse -A Fixed IdeaOn Carpaccio's Picture: The Dream of St. UrsulaThe StarlingMirageA PetitionIn Answer to a RequestEleonora DuseTo a Lady of Undeniable Beauty and Practised CharmBefore the AltarApologyAfter Writing ``The Bronze Horses''Merely StatementGavotte in D MinorSong for a Viola D'AmoreNuit BlancheOn Looking at a Copy of Alice Meynell's Poems, Given Me, Years Ago, by a Friend / The SistersAdapted Asian Forms and Translations from the Chinese -AliensThe PondA LoverTo a HusbandA Year PassesEphemeraAutumnOne of the ``Hundred Views of Fuji'' by HokusaiThe Fisherman's WifeOutside a GateIn Time of WarLi T'ai-poFrosty EveningA Poet's WifeThe ReturnNuanceAutumn HazeNuit BlancheAgain the New Year's FestivalTimeNostalgiaAfterglowVespersThe Battle to the South of the City, by Li T'ai-poThe Retreat of Hsieh Kung, by Li T'ai-poThe Terraced Road of the Two-Edged Sword Mountains, by Li T'ai-poLooking at the Moon after Rain, by Li T'ai-poThe Lonely Wife, by Li T'ai-poOn Hearing the Buddhist Priest of Shu Play His Table-Lute, by Li T'ai-poParrot Island, by Li T'ai-poReply to an Unrefined Person Encountered in the Hills, by Li T'ai-poNight Thoughts, by Li T'ai-poIn the Province of Lu, to the East of the Stone Gate Mountain, Taking Leave of Tu Fu, by Li T'ai-poA Poem Sent to Tu Fu from Sha Ch'iu Ch'eng, by Li T'ai-poThe River Village, by Tu FuThe Sorceress Gorge, by Tu FuAt the Edge of Heaven, Thinking of Li Po, by Tu FuSent to Li Po as a Gift, by Tu FuA Toast for Meng Yun-ch'ing, by Tu FuThe Blue-Green Stream, by Wang WeiTogether We Know Happiness, written by a descendant of the founder of the Southern T'ang DynastyII. Cadenced Verse In a GardenAbsenceAubadeWhite and GreenThe Captured GoddessThe TaxiThe Blue ScarfThe LetterPine, Beech, and SunlightAstigmatismThe Giver of StarsBright SunlightVenus TransiensA Rainy NightPatternsStrainfrom Stravinsky's Three Pieces ``Grotesques,'' for String Quartet, Second MovementSummer RainA DecadeAn AquariumThompson's Lunch Room---Grand Central StationOpalMise en SceneWakefulnessA BatherMadonna of the Evening Flowersfrom Dreams in War TimeA Sprig of RosemaryThe Broken FountainThe Weathervane Points SouthThe ArtistVernal EquinoxPenumbraSeptember. 1918GranadillaCarrefourLilacsMeeting-House HillFooting Up a TotalParadoxPurple GracklesIn ExcelsisOn Reading a Line Underscored by KeatsDissonanceHeraldicAttitude under an Elm TreeSultryThe On-lookerPoetic JusticeMid-adventureAnecdoteStill LifeIII. Polyphonic ProseSpring Dayfrom Malmaisonfrom Sea-Blue and Blood-Redfrom Guns As Keys: And the Great Gate SwingsNotes to the Poems

Amy Lowell may ascend again in reputation to join the list of more canonical moderns like Frost, Pound, Wallace Stevens and H.D.(Hilda Doolittle). This volume may start the ascendancy. (HoustonChronicle.com) I cannot imagine a finer introduction to LowellÆs poetry for both the general reader and scholar. At last we can begin to reassess Lowell in relationship to the other American poets of her generation. - Camille Roman (coeditor of The New Anthology of American Poetry) What a joy to have Amy LowellÆs brilliant, pioneering, long-underestimated poems back in print! This beautifully introduced and selected volume is sure to be welcomed by a range of general readers as well as by revisionary historians of modernism, feminist critics, and students of American poetry. - Sandra M. Gilbert (coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The) A wise selection of Amy LowellÆs poetry has been long overdue, and this attentively edited volume makes the range of her work in verse and patterned prose attractively available. - John Hollander