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| | James Russell Lowell |
 | | James Russell Lowell (22 February, 1819 - 12 August, 1891) was a United States poet, critic, writer, diplomat, and abolitionist. |
 | | It opened the way to new ideals in literature and art, and the writers to whom Lowell turned for atssistance -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Whittier, Poe, Story and Parsons, none of them yet possessed of a wide reputation -- indicate the acumen of the editor. |
 | | He contributed poems to the daily press, prompted by the slavery question; early in 1846, he was a correspondent of the London Daily News, and in the spring of 1848 he formed a connexion with the National Anti-Slavery Standard of New York, agreeing to contribute weekly either a poem or a prose article. |
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