Excerpt from Amy Lowell: Sketches Biographical and CriticalHis biographical resume of Miss Amy Lowell is given in response to a desire on'the part of many readers to know something more about the poet and critic whose genius has been such a stimu lating element in the modern poetry renaissance. 'the Lowell family seems to have had more than a normal quota of literary gentlemen. The first col onist, Percival Lowell, a merchant of Bristol, Somer set, England, who arrived in Newburyport in 1637, wrote an ode on the death of Governor Winthrop which contains the following nai've quatrain: Here you have Lowell's loyalty, Penned with slender skill.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.