Author:James Russell Lowell

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James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

See biography, media, quotes. American literary critic, editor, poet, and diplomat.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Poetry collections 1.2 Essay collections 1.3 Individual poems 1.4 Prose 2 Works about Lowell

[edit] Works

[edit] Poetry collections

• A Year's Life (1841)
• Miscellaneous Poems (1843)
• The Biglow Papers (1848)
• A Fable for Critics (1848)
• Poems (1848)
• The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)
• Under the Willows (1869)
• The Cathedral (1870)
• Heartsease and Rue (1888)

[edit] Essay collections

• Conversations on the Old Poets (1844)
• Fireside Travels (1864)
• Among My Books (1870)
• My Study Windows (1871)
• Among My Books (second collection, 1876)
• Democracy and Other Addresses (1886)
• Political Essays (1888)

[edit] Individual poems

• "Beatrice" (1858)
• "Beaver Brook" (1843)
• "The Changeling" (1843)
• "A Christmas Carol"
• "The Dead House" (1858)
• "Eurydice" (1843)
• "The Finding of the Lyre" (1869)
• "The First Snowfall" (1847)
• "Gloria Mundi" (1875)
• "Happiness" (1858)
• "June" (1848)
• "Longing" (1843)
• "Monna Lisa"
• "The Nest" (1858)
• "Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration" (1865)
• "On Board the '76" (1864)
• "On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves Near Washington" (1845)
• "The Present Crisis" (1845)
• "Rosaline"
• "The Search" (1843)
• "She Came and Went" (1843)
• "The Shepherd of King Admetus"
• "Stanzas on Freedom" (1843)
• "To Charles Eliot Norton" (1869)
• "To H. W. L." (1867)
• "To Holmes on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday" (1884)
• "To Whittier on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday" (1882)
• "The Trustee's Lament" (1858)

[edit] Prose

• "Francis Parkman" biography in Century Magazine (1892)

[edit] Works about Lowell

• "The Two Angels" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1853) was written for Lowell's first wife, Maria White.
• "The Herons of Elmwood" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is about Lowell's home in Cambridge, MA
• "Farewell to J. R. Lowell" by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1855)
• "At a Birthday Festival" by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1859)
• "James Russell Lowell" by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1891)
• “Lowell, James Russell,” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by Cousin, John William, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.