Author:James Russell Lowell

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James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)

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James Russell Lowell

Works

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)

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)

Individual poems

• "Beatrice" (1858)
• "Beaver Brook" (1843)
• "The Changeling" (1843)
• "A Christmas Carol"
• "The Dead House" (1858)
• "Epigram on J. M." (1858)
• "Eurydice" (1843)
• "The Finding of the Lyre" (1869)
• "The First Snowfall" (1847)
• "Fourth of July Ode"
• "The Ghost-Seer" (1845)
• "The Heritage"
• "Gloria Mundi" (1875)
• "Happiness" (1858)
• "Hunger and Cold" (1843)
• "Irené (1841)
• "June" (1848)
• "Lines" (1849)
• "Longing" (1843)
• "Monna Lisa"
• "My Portrait Gallery" (1857)
• "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 Origin of Didactic Poetry" (1857)
• "The Present Crisis" (1845)
• "Rosaline"
• "The Search" (1843)
• "She Came and Went" (1843)
• "The Shepherd of King Admetus"
• "Shipwreck" (1858)
• "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)

Prose

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

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)
• "J. R. L." by Christopher Pearse Cranch (1869)
• "A Welcome to Lowell" by John Greenleaf Whitter" (1885)
• "On the Musical Service Held in Commemoration of James Russell Lowell" by Julia Ward Howe (1891)
• "James Russell Lowell" by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1891)
• Charles Dudley Warner, “Lowell, James Russell,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1900.
• “Lowell, James Russell” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Lowell, James Russell” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.

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.