Amy Lowell; A Mosaic

New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1926. Limited Edition [stated], one of 450 printed. Hardcover. [8], 28, [4] pages. Decorative cover. Minor cover wear noted. Some endpaper discoloration. After page 28 is a listing of the "Writings of Amy Lowell". "With the exception of the four lines of verse all the quotations herein are from John Keats by Amy Lowell (Houghton Mifflin Company, 1925), and are copyrighted by Amy Lowell, 1925, by the kind permission of whose literary executors they are here used." George Henry Sargent (1867-1931), American bibliographer and journalist, was associated with the Boston Evening Transcript from 1895 until 1931. He wrote books and articles on bibliography and a column, The Bibliographer, about rare books. In 1887 he left for St. Paul, Minnesota where he was on the staff of the St. Paul Daily Pioneer Press first as a reporter, later as city editor. Sargent returned East in 1895, settled in Boston, and joined the Transcript as a reporter. He began writing his Wednesday rare book column, "The Bibliographer", in 1903. Ill health necessitated Sargent's return to his family's farm in Warner in 1914. From there he continued "The Bibliographer", (his last column appeared on the day of his death), wrote books and articles, on bibliography, and maintained his own book collection. Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school, which promoted a return to classical values. She posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. Lowell never attended college because her family did not consider it proper for a woman to do so. Typography by Bruce Rogers. Throughout her working life, Lowell was a promoter of both contemporary and historical poets. Her book Fir-Flower Poets was a poetical re-working of literal translations of the works of ancient Chinese poets, notably Li Tai-po (701–762). Her writing also included critical works on French literature. At the time of her death, she was attempting to complete her two-volume biography of John Keats (work on which had long been frustrated by the noncooperation of F. Holland Day, whose private collection of Keatsiana included Fanny Brawne's letters to Frances Keats). Lowell wrote of Keats: "the stigma of oddness is the price a myopic world always exacts of genius." In the post-World War I years, Lowell was largely forgotten, but the women's movement in the 1970s and women's studies brought her back to light. Additional sources of interest in Lowell today come from the anti-war sentiment of the oft-taught poem "Patterns"; her personification of inanimate objects, as in "The Green Bowl", and "The Red Lacquer Music Stand"; and her lesbian themes, including the love poems addressed to Ada Dwyer Russell in "Two Speak Together" and her poem "The Sisters", which addresses her female poetic predecessors. William Edwin Rudge is the name of a grandfather, father and son, all of whom worked in the printing business. The first William Edwin Rudge (1835–1910) operated a small commercial print shop in New York City. William Edwin Rudge II (1876–1931) was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. He went to work at age 13 at his father's print shop and in 1899 took it over due to his father's ill health. He called his business the Printing House of William Edwin Rudge. In 1920 he entered over a hundred works in the National Arts Club Exhibition of that year. Of the thirty-nine medals awarded, his firm won six, with designs commissioned from Frederic W. Goudy, Bruce Rogers, and Elmer Adler. In 1921 the plant was moved to Mount Vernon, N.Y. For the next ten years some of the finest printing being produced in America issued from its presses, dominated by Bruce Rogers, who designed eighty books for the firm up to 1931. Frederic Warde also worked for Rudge for two periods. Condition: Good.

Keywords: Bruce Rogers, Amy Lowell, Poetry, Poet, Verse, John Keats, New Dispensation, Imagism, Ezra Pound, Literature, Satire, Spiritual, Creativity, New England, Puritianism, William Edwin Rudge

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