1910's The Arts | "September, 1918"

Poem

By: Amy Lowell

Date: 1919

Source: Lowell, Amy. "September, 1918." In Pictures of the Floating World. New York: Macmillan, 1919. Reprinted in The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1955.

About the Author: Amy Lowell (1874–1925) was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, into a wealthy, old New England family. Her predecessors founded two Massachusetts cities, Lowell and Lawrence. Her famous brother, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, was the president of Harvard, and the poet Robert Lowell was a distant cousin. Amy Lowell lived her entire life on a ten-acre estate called Sevenels. She was encouraged to write from a young age and was tutored by governesses and sent to private schools. As an adult, Lowell was known for her outspokeness and her unconventional lifestyle. A leading member of the Imagist school of poetry, she published nine volumes of...