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  James Russell Lowell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lowell was already regarded as a man of wit and poetic sentiment; Miss White was admired for her beauty, her character and her intellectual gifts, and the two became the hero and heroine of their social circle.
The death of Lowell's mother, and the fragility of his wife's health, led Lowell, his wife, their daughter Mabel and their infant son Walter, to go to Europe in 1851, and they went direct to Italy.
In 1877 Lowell, who had mingled so little in party politics that the sole public office he had held was the nominal one of elector in the Presidential election of 1876, was appointed by President Hayes minister resident at the court of Spain.
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 James Russell Lowell - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Lowell was already looked upon by his companions as a man marked by wit and poetic sentiment; Miss White was admired for her beauty, her character and her intellectual gifts, and the two became thus the hero and heroine among a group of ardent young men and women.
The first-fruits of this passion was a volume of poems, published in 1841, entitled A Year's Life, which was inscribed by Lowell in a veiled dedication to his future wife, and was a record of his new emotions with a backward glance at the preceding period of depression and irresolution.
Lowell's mother meanwhile was living, sometimes at home, sometimes at a neighbouring hospital, with clouded mind, and his wife was in frail health.
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 James Russell Lowell
Lowell was probably as much aware of his limitations as were his critics, and he frequently expressed to friends his misgivings.
Lowell's reputation was so much a matter of received opinion that the attack on it made during the early decades of the twentieth century met with little resistance.
Lowell's decline in the literary market place is both an index to changing literary tastes and values, and the result of critical conflicts and misfortunes.
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 James Russell Lowell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
James Russell Lowell (22 February 1819 - 12 August 1891) was a United States poet critic writer diplomat and abolitionist.
Lowell was born lived most of his and died in Cambridge Massachusetts.
Lowell was already regarded as man of wit and poetic sentiment; Miss was admired for her beauty her character her intellectual gifts and the two became hero and heroine of their social circle.
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 James Russell Lowell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
LOWELL, James Russell, poet and essayist, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 22 February, 1819.
The "Conversations on the Poets" was Lowell's first work in literary criticism, and was the basis of his lectures before the Lowell institute, 1854-'5, and of his lectures in Harvard university during his professorship of modern languages and belles-lettres.
Lowell was appointed by President Hayes to the Spanish mission, from which he was transferred in 1880 to the court of St. James.
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 Robert Lowell
Lowell was called the father of the confessional poets, a term used to describe among others Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and John Berryman.
Robert Lowell was born in Boston as the son of Robert Traill Spence Lowell, a naval officer, and Charlotte (Winslow) Lowell, the dominating figure in the family.
In 1949 Lowell was hospitalized for mania at Baldpate Hospital in Georgetown, Massachusetts.
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 Lowell - Namesake   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
James Russell Lowell was an important author who played an important part in the cultural life of the United States during the 1800's.
James Russell Lowell was born February 22, 1819 in Cambridge, Massachusetts from a noted New England family.
James Russell Lowell died when he was 72 years old in 1891 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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 Lowell, James Russell. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The next year Lowell married Maria White, an ardent abolitionist and liberal, who encouraged him in his work.
Lowell’s Poems (1844, 1846), A Fable for Critics (1848), The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848), and The Bigelow Papers (1848; 2d series, 1867) brought him considerable notice as a poet and critic.
While abroad Lowell did much to increase the respect of foreigners for American letters and American institutions; his speeches in England, published as Democracy and Other Addresses (1887), are among his best work.
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James Russell Lowell (22 February 1819 12 August 1891) was a United States Romantic poet, critic, satirist, writer, diplomat, and abolitionist.
He was the son of Charles Lowell (1782–1861).
They are often brilliant, and sometimes very penetrating in their judgment of men and books; but the most constant element is a pervasive humor, and this humor, by turns playful and sentimental, is largely characteristic of his poetry, which sprang from a genial temper, quick in its sympathy with nature and humanity.
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 Amy Lowell - Poems and Biography by AmericanPoems.com
Amy Lowell didn't become a poet until she was years into her adulthood; then, when she died early, her poetry (and life) were nearly forgotten -- until gender studies as a discipline began to look at women like Lowell as illustrative of an earlier lesbianism.
Amy Lowell went to Europe and Egypt in 1897-98 to recover, living on a severe diet that was supposed to improve her health (and help with her increasing weight problem).
Her relative, James Russell Lowell, had published in his generation A Fable for Critics, witty and pointed verse analyzing poets who were his contemporaries.
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James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) is one of the group of authors sometimes called the Fireside Poets or the Schoolroom Poets, a group which also included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Lowell's contribution to Arthurian literature is his poem "The Vision of Sir Launfal." First published in 1848, "The Vision of Sir Launfal" tells the story of Launfal, who is initially a haughty nobleman.
Lowell's poem is particularly interesting as a democratization of the Grail story.
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 James Russell Lowell And England Contemporary Review - Find Articles
As a New England brahmin and academic it is natural that Lowell's intellectual development and tastes drew greatly on the cultural heritage of the mother country.
The latter, Lowell declared, gave him 'the impression of a man of sentiment who seeks refuge from a sense of his own weakness in strong opinions (or at any rate the vehement assertion of them) as men reassure themselves by talking aloud in the dark'.
Lowell's dealings in this matter were not always well appreciated by the Irish, a people for whom he had no great liking, and their American sympathizers and there were vociferous demands for his recall.
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 Definition of James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell (22 February, 1819-12 August, 1891) was a United States poet, critic, satirist, writer, diplomat, and abolitionist.
It opened the way to new ideals in literature and art, and the writers to whom Lowell turned for assistance--Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Whittier, Edgar Allan Poe, Story and Parsons, none of them yet possessed of a wide reputation--indicate the acumen of the editor.
The book was not premeditated; a single poem, inspired by the recruiting for the abhorred Mexican war, couched in rustic phrase and sent to the Boston Courier, made him a leader of the little army of Anti-Slavery reformers.
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 Lowell, James Russell -- Lowell, James Russell: in Cornell University's Making of America
Lowell, James Russell, In a Volume of Sir Thomas Browne.
Lowell, James Russell, An Ode for the Fourth of July, 1876.
Lowell, James Russell, Ode recited at the Harvard Commemoration.
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 PAL:James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)
Anderson, John Q. "Lowell's 'The Washers of the Shroud' and the Celtic Legend of the Washer of the Ford." American Literature 35 (1963): 361-363.
Kenney, Alice P. "Yankees in Camelot: The Democratization of Chivalry in James Russell Lowell, Mark Twain and Edwin Arlington Robinson." Studies in Medievalism 1.2 (Sprg 1982): 73-78.
"James Russell Lowell and Robert Carter: The Pioneer and Fifty Letters from Lowell to Carter." Studies in the American Renaissance (1987): 187-246.
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 From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: Outline of American Literature: Democratic Origins and Revolutionary ...
James Russell Lowell, who became professor of modern languages at Harvard after Longfellow retired, is the Matthew Arnold of American literature.
Under his wife's influence, Lowell became a liberal reformer, abolitionist, and supporter of women's suffrage and laws ending child labor.
Lowell writes in the same vein, linking the colonial "character" tradition with the new realism and regionalism based on dialect that flowered in the 1850s and came to fruition in Mark Twain.
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 BookRags: James Russell Lowell Biography
James Russell Lowell was born in Cambridge, Mass., on Feb.22, 1819, of a well-established New England family.Following family tradition, he attended Harvard, graduating in 1838 and taking a law degree there in 1840.Soon after the publication of his first volume of poems, A Year's Life (1841), he gave up law to devote himself to literature.
Encouraged by the success of his second volume, Poems (1844), Lowell married Maria White, a poet and abolitionist whose zeal for attacking social injustices Lowell soon absorbed.For a year he was an editorial writer for the abolitionist journal the Pennsylvania Freeman.
Lowell's reputation as a social critic was soundly established with the publication of the Biglow Papers (first series, 1848).
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 Amy Lowell - Poems and Biography by AmericanPoems.com
John Amory Lowell's cousin was the poet James Russell Lowell.
A university education was out of the question for a Lowell daughter, although not for the sons.
Ada Russell, her executrix, not only burned all personal correspondence, as directed by Amy Lowell, but also published three more volumes of Lowell's poems posthumously.
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 James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell was a poet, critic, editor, and writer.
Lowell was a very influential and respected man in his lifetime, though after his death his popularity dropped.
James Russell Lowell was born on February 22, 1819 in Cambridge, Mass.
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 "The Changeling" by James Russell Lowell
Lowell was another of the literary elite from Cambridge, Mass who came to visit Celia Thaxter at her summer salon on Appledore Island.
A man of letters and Harvard professor, Lowell was known as a romantic poet, a humorist, critic, and editor of Atlantic Monthly and author of 50 abolitionist articles.
Lowell retained a fascination in the occult and wrote an extensive essay on witchcraft in his 1871 collected essays "Among My Books."
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 By James Russell Lowell Author - new and used books
Lowell, James Russell (Author) Lowell, Henry Ketcham (Introduction by) -
Lowell, James Russell (Author) Lowell, Henry Ketcham (Introduction by) - The Early Poems of James Russell Lowell Including the Bigelow Papers
Poe, Edgar Allan (Author) Lowell, James Russell (Introduction by) Schweitzer, Darrell (Introduction by) - The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol.
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 Lowell R - new and used books
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 james russell lowell - OneLook Dictionary Search
Lowell, James Russell : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
James Russell Lowell, Lowell, James Russell : Dictionary.com [home, info]
Lowell, James Russell : Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
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James Russell Lowell, Class Poem (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Cambridge Press; Metcalf, Torry, and Ballou, 1838)
Francis H. Underwood, The Poet and the Man: Recollections and Appreciations of James Russell Lowell (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1893)
Hyatt H. Waggoner, "James Russell Lowell," in Hyatt H. Waggoner, American Poets from Puritans to the Present (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1968)
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 The Daguerreian Society: Lowell anecdote
On 12 May 1845, James Russell Lowell wrote to his sister-in-law Louis [White Howe] about daguerreotypes of Maria (his wife) and himself:
(Transcribers note: When this was written, J.R. Lowell was rising in his prominence as a writer and poet.
He figuratively describes the sun [Phoebus] as the artist, with Langenheim as the "assistant." This passage also illustrates the common effort of the gallery operator to add "notables" to the gallery collection.
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