Dome of Many-Coloured Glass, A.
Lowell, Amy. A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1912.
12mo.; blue paper-covered boards, tan cloth spine, printed labels; tips gently bumped; dent to rear panel.
First edition of Lowell’s first commercially published book, a collection of 69 poems grouped as follows: Lyrical Poems, Sonnets, The Boston Athenaeum, and Verses for Children. (Dream Drops, Or Stories From Fairy Land, Lowell’s rare first book, was a collaboration between her and her sister Elizabeth, and was prepared by her mother and privately printed to benefit a local charity when she was 13; see previous entry.) A presentation copy, inscribed to one of Lowell’s nieces on the front endpaper: Eleanor, with much love, from Amy. With the recipient’s pencil ticks to various selections list on the table of contents.
Lowell met Ezra Pound and other Imagists within a year of the publication of this book and was soon the leading exponent of that movement in the United States—though Pound later quipped that her style was more “Amygistic” than “Imagistic.” Drawing from the intellectual and financial patrimony of the Lowell New England establishment, she sponsored several promising poets and edited little magazines, while publishing her own poetical and critical works including her 1925 two-volume biography of Keats.
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