Letter 1922 April 4, Staten Island, [to] Amy Lowell, Unknown / Edwin Markham. 1922.

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Letter 1922 April 4, Staten Island, [to] Amy Lowell, Unknown / Edwin Markham. 1922.

Markham recieved Amy's 2 volumes Fir-Flower Tablets and Legends. He critic Fir-Flower, he hasn't read Legends yet. He refers to a ballad by Tom O'Shanter.

1 p. 1 leaf ; 26 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7551965

Wagner College, Horrmann Library

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Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925

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Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her brother, Abbot Lawrence Lowell, was president of Harvard University. At age 36, Lowell had her first poem published in the Atlantic Monthly. In 1912, her first book of poems, A dome of many colored glasses was published. She became associated with the Imagists poets when Ezra Pound, whom she had met on a trip to England, included one of her poems in his anthology, Des imagistes. Lowell wrote critical articles for periodicals in add...

Markham, Edwin, 1852-1940

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California poet. Raised near Vacaville, became a schoolteacher in Coloma and later in Oakland. Became famous overnight with publication of "The Man with a Hoe," his protest against brutalization of labor, in "San Francisco Examiner" (January 15, 1899). Following this success Markham moved to New York where he scored another triumph with "Lincoln and Other Poems" (1901). He became a well-known reader of his own poems and lecturer of idealistic views, but his creative output for remainder of life ...