The Complete Poetical Works (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Amy Lowell
- First Published: 1955
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Narrative poetry, Sonnet
- Subjects: Homosexuality or homosexuals, Love or romance, Sex or sexuality, Nature, Supernatural, Flowers, Lesbianism or lesbians, War, Romanticism
Form and Content
The Complete Poetical Works collects eleven of Amy Lowell’s books published between 1912 and 1927 and six uncollected poems, thus superseding an earlier, posthumous anthology edited by John Livingston Lowes, Selected Poems of Amy Lowell (1928). The Complete Poetical Works is presented in chronological publication order. Lowell’s not-inconsiderable prose texts are omitted, such as the post-World War I study Tendencies in Modern American Poetry (1921), in which Lowell attempted to articulate a literary movement, and the exhaustive...
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