Amy Lowell photographs and additional materials, 1758-1970 (inclusive), 1874-1925 (bulk).

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Amy Lowell photographs and additional materials, 1758-1970 (inclusive), 1874-1925 (bulk).

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Images include portraits of Amy Lowell from infancy through adulthood as well as images of the exterior and interior of Sevenels, the Lowell family home in Brookline, Massachusetts. Also includes snapshots from AL's travels and of her country house in Dublin, New Hampshire. Other papers include broadsides of poetry by Edwin Markham; garden plans for Sevenels; AL's honorary doctorate from Baylor University, and photostats of Lowell family manuscripts.

2 boxes (1.25 linear ft.)

Houghton 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 ...

Hunt, Richard, 1947-

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Epithet: of Add MS 15948 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001031.0x00026e ...

Sevenels (Brookline, Mass.)

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Shurcliff, Arthur A. (Arthur Asahel), 1870-1957

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Shurcliff was a landscape architect who, with Frederick Law Olmstead, Jr., founded the landscape architecture program at Harvard University. From the description of Notebooks, 1897-1902. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 79025322 From the guide to the Notebooks, 1897-1902., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Arthur A. Shurcliff (born Shurtleff) was educated at MIT and Harvard's Bussey Institute. He apprenticed at the Olmsted offi...