James Russell Lowell: 35 books

James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets. These poets usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside. -wikipedia

James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets. These poets usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside. -wikipedia

James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets who rivaled the popularity of British poets. These poets usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside. -wikipedia

This volume, published in the year of the author’s death, collects some of Lowell’s most intellectually stimulating pieces. Included are studies of Walter Savage Landor, Milton’s “Areopagitica,” Shakespeare’s “Richard III,” modern languages, and the world’s progress, among others. The...

This 1886 collection of public addresses by Lowell features nine speeches, including “Democracy,” a lecture given at Lowell’s assumption of the Presidency of the Birmingham and Midland Institute; “Books and Libraries,” given at the opening of the Free Public Library in Chelsea, Massachusetts;...

Posthumously published in 1892, this volume collects six lectures given by Lowell in 1887.  According to editor Charles Eliot Norton, "The lectures were never revised by Mr. Lowell for publication, but they contain such admirable and interesting criticism . . . that it has seemed to me that they should...

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A book brimming with discriminating observations, humor, and delicate prose—this 1867 account of Lowell’s first trip to Europe in 1850 includes “Cambridge Thirty Years Ago,” “Moosehead Journal,” and “Leaves from My Journal in Italy.”

Lowell begins this volume of essays with a charming “Apology for a Preface.” The bulk of the book discusses English poets:  Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Milton, William Wordsworth, and John Keats. The author then turns his eye to the German writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing as well as French-born Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Sentimentalists.

The popular success of Lowell’s Among My Books series encouraged him to publish this eclectic collection, which includes “My Garden Acquaintance,” “A Good Word for Winter,” “On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners,” “A Great Public Character,” “Abraham Lincoln,” “Carlyle,” and “Library of Old Authors.”

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This 1848 collection of conversational essays includes "A Moosehead Journal," "Cambridge Thirty Years Ago," "Leaves from My Journal in Italy and Elsewhere," "Emerson the Lecturer," and more. 

This 1888 collection brings together the abolitionist poet’s writings from the Civil War. Included are “The American Tract Society,” “The Election in November,” “E Pluribus Unum,” “The Pickens-And-Stealin’s Rebellion,” “The Rebellion: Its Causes and Consequences,” “McClellan...