1st Edition

Amy Lowell Complete Poetical Works and Selected Writings – Facsimile Collection of First Editions

Edited By Naoki Onishi Copyright 2008
3200 Pages
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This set is a complete collection of the poetic works of Amy Lowell, in a facsimile reprint of the first editions. Amy Lowell was intrigued with Japanese art and culture due to the influence of her brother Percival, a pioneering American Japanologist. She started writing poems in her late twenties, including many with Japanese subjects at the core. Throughout her life she continued to publish... Read more

Volume I  Introduction by Naoki Onishi  A Dome of Many Colored Glass.  Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds.  Volume II  Men, Women, and Ghosts. Can Grande’s Castle. Volume III  Pictures of the Floating World.  Legends. Volume IV  Fir-Flower Tablets.  A Critical Fable. Volume V  What’s O’clock.  East Wind.  Volume VI  Ballads for Sale Poetry and Poets, Essay.  Miscellaneous Writings 1: Introduction to Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan.  Miscellaneous Writings 2: Selected Articles from Literary/Poetry Journals 1914–22.  Vers Libre and Metrical Prose, Poetry.  A Letter from London Nationalism in Art, Poetry.  The Poetry Bookshop.  An Observer in China.  The Rhythms of Free Verse.  Miss Lowell on Translating Chinese.

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Naoki Onishi