Roche, Hannah Elizabeth orcid.org/0000-0003-0537-6683 (2018) Myths, Legends, and Apparitional Lesbians: Amy Lowell's Haunting Modernism. Modernist Cultures. pp. 568-589. ISSN 2041-1022
Abstract
By the end of the twentieth century, Amy Lowell’s poetry had been all but erased from modernism, with her name resurfacing only in relation to her dealings with Ezra Pound, her distant kinship with Robert Lowell, or her correspondence with D. H. Lawrence. The tale of how Pound rejected Lowell’s Imagism, rebranding his movement as Vorticism and spurning the ‘Amygism’ of Lowell’s Some Imagist Poets anthologies (1915-1917), had become something of a modernist myth. Recent critics have begun the project of re-evaluating and ultimately reinstating Lowell, but the extent of her contribution to modernist poetry and poetics – and her influence on other, more popular, twentieth-century writers – has not yet been acknowledged. This essay encourages readers to see the apparitional Lowell, both in the male-dominated world of modernism and in celebrated works by writers that followed. By drawing attention to the weighty impact of Lowell’s poetry on Lawrence – and, later, on Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath – I provide compelling reasons not only to revisit Lowell but also to reassess those texts that are haunted by her presence.
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Keywords: | Lowell,Lawrence,Hughes,Plath,Imagism,gender,queer,influence,appropriation |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > English and Related Literature (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 19 Jan 2018 13:10 |
Last Modified: | 02 Apr 2025 23:11 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.3366/mod.2018.0230 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3366/mod.2018.0230 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:126438 |
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