Amy Lowell (1874–1925) was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, to a distinguished New England family, and was educated at private schools. One of her brothers was astronomer Percival Lowell, and another, Abbott Lowell, became president of Harvard University. After her parents' death, Lowell inherited the family's ten-acre estate, Sevenels, including a staff of servants and a large library. Like fellow poets Ezra Pound and H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Lowell became a leading figure in the movement called Imagism. She wrote poetry that is filled with clear, precise images of objects in the world rather than descriptions of her inner feelings. She traveled widely, giving talks about poetry. Her first book of poetry, A Dome of Many-Colored Glass, was published in 1912. She followed it with Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds (1914); Men, Women, and Ghosts (1916); Pictures of the Floating World (1919); What's O'Clock (1925), which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1926; and Ballads for Sale (1927). Lowell also wrote a biography of poet John Keats and several books about the poetry being written in her time. Amy Lowell was a strong personality and was not liked by everyone. However, many admired her for her ability to put her intense ideas about the world into powerful poetry. As Heywood Broun wrote in his obituary tribute to Lowell, "She was upon the surface of things a Lowell, a New Englander and a spinster. But inside everything was molten like the core of the earth. . . . Given one more gram of emotion, Amy Lowell would have burst into flame and been consumed to cinders."