Drama, 7 ('17): 325.
+Amy Lowell+--poet, critic.
Born at Brookline, Massachusetts, 1874. Sister of President Lowell of
Harvard, and of Percival Lowell, the astronomer. Distantly related to
James Russell Lowell. Educated at private schools. Traveled extensively
in Europe as a child. Her visits to Egypt, Greece, and Turkey influenced
her development. In 1902, she decided to become a poet and spent eight
years studying, without publishing a poem. Her first poem appeared in the
_Atlantic_, 1910.
She is a collector of Keats manuscripts and says that the poet who
influenced her most profoundly was Keats. She has also made special study
of Chinese poetry.