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Unpopular Legends
van Doren, Mark | August 10, 1921 issue

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The article focuses on the book "Legends," by Amy Lowell. So far as popularity is concerned, Amy Lowell's chief enemy is her ambition, her greatest handicap her energy. If energy and ambition in themselves could effect anything, here is a volume which would become at once and forever the possession of all the peoples on earth who read, hear, or think narrative. It is fair to Miss Lowell to admit that she intended nothing else. The stories were already perennial; "this is my version, as the next man will have his and so on forever." "Legends" is incomparably the best of Amy Lowell thus far.

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LEGENDS (Book); LOWELL, Amy, 1874-1925; AMBITION; LEGENDS; LITERATURE; POPULAR literature
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