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Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography Kindle Edition

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The controversial American poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925), a founding member of the Imagist group that included D. H. Lawrence and H. D., excelled as the impresario for the “new poetry” that became news across the U. S. in the years after World War I. Maligned by T. S. Eliot as the “demon saleswoman” of poetry, and ridiculed by Ezra Pound, Lowell has been treated by previous biographers as an obese, sex-starved, inferior poet who smoked cigars and made a spectacle of herself, canvassing the country on lecture tours that drew crowds in the hundreds for her electrifying performances.

In fact, Lowell wrote some of the finest love lyrics of the 20th century and led a full and loving life with her constant companion, the retired actress Ada Russell. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize posthumously in 1926. This provocative new biography, the first in forty years, restores Amy Lowell to her full humanity in an era that, at last, is beginning to appreciate the contributions of gays and lesbians to American’s cultural heritage. Drawing on newly discovered letters and papers, Rollyson’s biography finally gives this vibrant poet her due.
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Amy Lowell Anew by Carl Rollyson: Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was a controversial poet. T. S. Eliot called her the "demon saleswoman of poetry" and she was similarly despised by Ezra Pound. Lowell, however, was incredibly influential--a founding member of the Imagist group, awarded the Pulitzer posthumously, and writer of some of the most moving love poetry of the twentieth century. This new biography offers a complete portrait of her--examining her work, her personal life, and her legacy--in a smart reevaluation of a writer who many are too quick to disparage.--posted on New Criterion blog, July 29, 2013

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Carl Rollyson is a professor of journalism at Baruch College, The City University of New York. Rollyson has published more than forty books, including American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath and Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews. His articles and reviews have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Raleigh News & Observer, The Kansas City Star, The Barnes & Noble Review, and The New Criterion. Visit his website: www.carlrollyson.com.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Stackpole Books (June 14, 2023)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 14, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Carl Rollyson, Professor of Journalism at Baruch College, The City University of New York, has published more than forty books ranging in subject matter from biographies of Marilyn Monroe, Lillian Hellman, Martha Gellhorn, Norman Mailer, Rebecca West, Susan Sontag, and Jill Craigie to studies of American culture, genealogy, children's biography, film, and literary criticism. He has authored more than 500 articles on American and European literature and history. His work has been reviewed in newspapers such as The New York Times and the London Sunday Telegraph and in journals such as American Literature and the Dictionary of Literary Biography. For four years (2003-2007) he wrote a weekly column, "On Biography," for The New York Sun and was President of the Rebecca West Society (2003-2007). His play, THAT WOMAN: REBECCA WEST REMEMBERS, has been produced at Theatresource in New York City. Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography (awarded a "We the People" NEH grant) will be published in August 2013. . "Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews, a biography of Dana Andrews was published in September 2012 by University Press of Mississippi. His biography, "American Isis: The Life and Death of Sylvia Plath" was published in February 2013, the fiftieth anniversary of her death. In 2013, he also published Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography, and in 2014 Marilyn Monroe Day by Day. His biography/memoir A Private Life of Michael Foot will be published in August 2015. He is currently at work on two books, Memoirs of a Serial Biographer and a biography of William Faulkner. His reviews of biography appear regularly in The Wall Street Journal, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Raleigh News & Observer, The Kansas City Star, and The New Criterion. He is currently advisory editor for the Hollywood Legends series published by the University Press of Mississippi. He welcomes queries from those interested in contributing to the series. Read his column, "Biographology," and his blog on http://carlrollyson.com.

The Last Days of Sylvia Plath,

https://youtu.be/ftruv5i9WfM

American Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath. Book trailer: https://youtu.be/M54HJRqrOlU

The Life of William Faulkner: Volume 1: The Past is Never Dead. Book trailer: https://youtu.be/shPFvA06_sM

The Life of William Faulkner: Volume 2: This Alarming Paradox. Book trailer: https://vimeo.com/424521449

Another video on why I decided to write a Faulkner biography: https://youtu.be/LVx0SJX4GQg

EXCERPT from The Life of William Faulkner

https://lithub.com/young-william-faulkner-in-the-french-quarter/

ARTICLES on William Faulkner

https://uvamagazine.org/articles/william_faulkner_uva

https://momentmag.com/faulkner-the-anti-fascist/

https://hedgehogreview.com/blog/thr/posts/faulkner-as-futurist

https://popularculturereview.wordpress.com/2020/06/25/rollyson-2/

http://classicmovieman.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-revisionist-view-of-reivers-novel.html

https://theimaginativeconservative.org/2020/03/old-rowan-oak-conservatism-william-faulkner.html

https://lithub.com/uncovering-the-hidden-love-lives-of-sylvia-plath-and-william-faulkner/

https://brightlightsfilm.com/the-cinematic-faulkner-framing-hollywood/#.XqCVgGhKjIU

http://page99test.blogspot.com/2020/03/carl-rollysons-last-days-of-sylvia-plath.html

https://medium.com/@simplycharly/the-saddest-words-william-faulkners-civil-war-simply-charly-7588fc602218

VIDEO INTERVIEWS

Philadelphia Athenaeum https://youtu.be/Cjr_KapycSQ

https://www.upress.virginia.edu/2020/05/13/listen-uva-press-presents-interview-carl-rollyson-author-life-william-faulkner-and

https://www.crowdcast.io/e/carl-rollyson-the-life

https://youtu.be/Dn_0-ypQuqM (with Larry Wells)

https://youtu.be/NILXMhUZDqk (on my career as a biographer).

Audio interviews

https://www.upress.virginia.edu/2020/05/13/listen-uva-press-presents-interview-carl-rollyson-author-life-william-faulkner-and

https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2020/04/who-was-william-faulkner

https://newbooksnetwork.com/carl-rollyson-the-life-of-william-faulkner-the-past-is-never-dead-1897-1934-uva-press-2020/

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-life-of-william-faulkner

ONLINE INTERVIEWS

https://simplycharly.com/read/interviews/a-novelist-and-a-fabulist-carl-rollyson-separates-fact-from-fiction-in-william-faulkner-life

https://sway.office.com/eCX6pxGdgCjeMAbo?ref=Link {Questions for Carl Rollyson, interviewed by Christopher Rieger, Center for Faulkner Studies.}

Book trailers, vol 1 & 2: https://youtu.be/shPFvA06_sM; https://vimeo.com/424521449

Another video on why I decided to write a Faulkner biography: https://youtu.be/LVx0SJX4GQg

My weekly podcast: https://anchor.fm/carl-rollyson

MORE BOOK TRAILERS

Hollywood Enigma: Dana Andrews. https://youtu.be/G7xyz9sL3HA

A Private Life of Michael Foot. https://youtu.be/HVNFrNUmY58

Norman Mailer: The Last Romantic. https://youtu.be/D7Xa6Wzm6MM

A Real American Character: The Life of Walter Brennan. https://youtu.be/t2-VkVtaWyU

Confessions of a Serial Biographer. https://youtu.be/0TXiStzlXaI

Marilyn Monroe: Day by Day. https://youtu.be/olt9FvDWWu4

Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress. https://youtu.be/3Ep8W6fx14s

Amy Lowell Anew: A Biography. https://youtu.be/sJ7Ae4rEjSk

Susan Sontag: The Making of an Icon, revised and updated. https://youtu.be/5u1puSBpTiU

Audition script for NORMAN MAILER: THE LAST ROMANTIC: http://www.carlrollyson.com/_i_norman_mailer__the_last_romantic__i__113276.htm

MY REVIEWS

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/carl-rollyson/the-life-of-william-faulkner/

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/carl-rollyson/life-william-faulkner/

https://mailchi.mp/newcriterion.com/the-critics-notebook-ornamented-streets-a-full-cycle-of-suites-770678?e=7d12600e52

http://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/index.php/bookreview/the-life-of-william-faulkner-the-past-is-never-dead-1897-1934

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8139-4382-4

https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8139-4440-1

https://medium.com/@simplycharly/the-saddest-words-william-faulkners-civil-war-simply-charly-7588fc602218

SYLVIA PLATH

Podcast: https://anchor.fm/carl-rollyson

My Plath-related podcasts: anchor.fm/carl-rollyson: #1: The Last Days of Sylvia Plath; #4: A Tale of Two Bioraphies; #5 Sylvia Plath Meet Rebecca West; #8 How to end a biography; #23 Reviewing Biography: The Case of Sylvia Plath; #26 What is a definitive biography?

Videos:

The Last Days of Sylvia Plath, publisher’s website and link to book trailer:

https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/The-Last-Days-of-Sylvia-Plath

Another video on why I decided to write a second biography of Sylvia Plath: https://youtu.be/yOZSulanSFU

Reviews

https://www.startribune.com/review-the-last-days-of-sylvia-plath-by-carl-rollyson/568768382/

https://newcriterion.com/blogs/dispatch/done-it-again

https://modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2020/07/03/book-review-mirrored-in-a-glowing-cover-carl-rollysons-the-last-days-of-sylvia-plath/

Articles

https://lithub.com/uncovering-the-hidden-love-lives-of-sylvia-plath-and-william-faulkner/

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5.0 out of 5 stars The return of Amy Lowell
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2013
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From a British reader; Amy Lowell, the poet,critic and biographer,had been due to return,in 1925, to England,in connection with her two volume biography of John Keats.But,she never made it,felled by a stroke in May of that year at the age of 51.Posthumously,Lowell was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for her volume of poems,"What's O' Clock".
In 1913,Lowell had first visited England,in search of Imagist poetry,and in 2013,Carl Rollyson,in "Amy Lowell Anew" has written the first biography of Lowell in 40 years.
Rollyson recently talked about Lowell at Keats House in Hampstead,London.Lowell had been instrumental in raising funds to help save and restore the house.Her biography of Keats had stressed the importance of Fanny Brawne in Keats' development as a poet.
Previous biographers have been opaque about the nature of the relationship between Amy Lowell and Ada Russell, a gifted actress,who Lowell first encountered in 1909.Lowell's love for Russell inspired some of the most exquisite and erotic poetry,including poems such as "Venus Transiens"," Madonna of the Evening Flowers" and "Carrefour".Rollyson writes about their relationship,and their living together at Sevenels,in Brookline.Only Russell was able to stand up to Lowell's formidable relationship. Rollyson has uncovered a hitherto unknown relationship which Lowell had with Elizabeth Seccombe,which foundered two years before Lowell met Russell.
Lowell has previously been depicted by male biographers as an obese,frustrated poet.Rollyson rights this wrong,as Lowrll's champion.He also writes about the public Lowell who toured from city to city giving poetry readings to packed audiences,like a modern rock star.Lowell published several anthologies of Imagist Poetry.,her own books of poems,experimenting with polyphonic prose,including "Sea-Blue" and Blood Red"" about the love of Nelson for Emma Hamilton.
Rollyson's biography of Lowell is also timely, with the centenary of the First World War im 2014.Lowell was in England in 2014,when war broke out.She had just met the writer DH Lawrence,who continued to write to her for the rest of her life.Rollyson's biography returns Lowell to her rightful place at the centre of poetry in the early 20th century,both in America and England.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amy Lowell Is Finally Getting Some Well-Deserved Appreciation.
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2014
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At last, the wait for a thoughtful and incisive biography of Amy Lowell is over, and Carl Rollyson cuts through decades of sloppy scholarship, research lacking critical thinking, and mid-20th Century anti-woman bias to produce a work that does justice to Lowell’s pioneering efforts in modern poetry. Rollyson has laid the groundwork for scholars to re-appraise Lowell’s poems and produce a critical edition of her work, some of which is extraordinarily powerful as well as beautifully constructed.

In 204 pages, Rollyson gives us a woman born into upper-class privilege who led the charge to remake American verse anew, to redo America’s perception of poetry anew, and to reconstruct societal landscape anew. Lowell’s honesty, tolerance, inclusiveness, patriotism, and unstoppable industry made her a household name by the mid-1920s, and even some of her most biased critics recognized her as a creative force and cultural phenomenon. In a life that was far too short, she managed to influence some of the 20th Century’s finest poets, and it’s an indictment of recent literary criticism that she hasn’t received the recognition due her fine writing and pioneering effort. Taken all by itself, her excellent biography of John Keats should guarantee her fame for posterity.

Read Rollyson’s forthright presentation of Lowell’s life and accomplishments and join those of us who’d like to see her work given wider circulation for further scholarship, appraisal, appreciation, and outright enjoyment!
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4.0 out of 5 stars A new life for Amy Lowell
Reviewed in the United States on October 29, 2013
In Amy Lowell: Anew, biographer Carl Rollyson breathes life back into one of the 20th century's first female poems. Rollyson highlights Lowell's professionalism, giving astute readings to some of Lowell's more well-known poems, her innovation, and her advocacy for the art of poetry. Working with primary resources, Rollyson also brings to light a previously unknown relationship in Lowell's life with Elizabeth "Bessie" Seccombe, before Lowell was a poet and before she became the partner of Ada Dwyer Russell. A fresh perspective with clear consistent informative and engaging writing.
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