The grave of Amy Lowell is located in the back of a family plot which is surrounded by a decorative iron fence. The grave is marked by a 3' high slate marker which is inscribed:
AMY LOWELL
BROOKLINE
FEBRUARY 9, 1874
MAY 19, 1925
Amy Lowell was born into the prominent Lowell family of Brookline, MA. He brothers were the famous astronomer Percival Lowell and Harvard president Abbott Lawrence Lowell. She traveled extensively in Europe and was inspired to began writing poetry, at age 28, after watching a performance of Italian actress Eleonora Duse. Amy Lowell's poetry belonged to the imagist school of poetry which stressed precision of imagery and clear, sharp language.
Her long romantic relationship with actress Ada Dwyer Russell, whom she met in 1909, became the subject of some of her more erotic love poems. She was further influenced by meeting the Irish poet Ezra Pound. Her poetry was published in many periodicals including the Yale Review, Atlantic, and The Nation.
Amy Lowell died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1925, at the age of 51. The following year, she was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her poem What's O'Clock.
The Poetry Foundation website lists the following works of Amy Lowell Web Link:
POETRY
A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass, 1912.
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed,1914
Men, Women, and Ghosts, 1916
Can Grande's Castle, 1918
Pictures of the Floating World, 1919
Legends, 1921
A Critical Fable, 1922
What's O'Clock, 1925
East Wind, 1926
Ballads for Sale, 1927
Selected Poems of Amy Lowell,1928
Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell, 1955
Selected Poems of Amy Lowell, 2002
PROSE
Dream Drops or Stories from Fairy Land by a Dreamer, 1887
Six French Poets: Studies in Contemporary Literature,1915
Tendencies in Modern American Poetry, 1917
John Keats, 1925
Poetry and Poets: Essays, 1930
The letters of D. H. Lawrence & Amy Lowell, 1914-1925, 1985