Author:James Russell Lowell

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James Russell Lowell
(1819–1891)

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American literary critic, editor, poet, and diplomat. In his early period, Lowell published a number of poems under the pen-names "Hugh Perceval," "Hugh Peters," or variations of these.

Works

Poetry collections

A Year's Life (1841) (transcription project)
Miscellaneous Poems (1843)
Poems (1844) (transcription project)
The Biglow Papers (1848)
A Fable for Critics (1848)
Poems (1848)
The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)
Under the Willows (1869)
The Cathedral (1870)
Under the old elm,: and other poems (1885)
Heartsease and Rue (1888)

Essay collections

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

Individual poems

"Beatrice" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (1) (1858)
"Beaver Brook" (1843)
"The Changeling" (1843)
"A Christmas Carol"
"The Dead House" (1858)
"Epigram on J. M." (1858)
"Eurydice" (1843)
"The Falcon" (1843)
"The Finding of the Lyre" (1869)
"The First Snowfall" (1847)
"Fourth of July Ode"
"The Ghost-Seer" (1845)
"Gloria Mundi" (1875)
"Happiness" (1858)
"The Heritage"
"Hunger and Cold" (1843)
"Irené (1841)
"Italy, 1859" in The Atlantic Monthly, 4 (26) (1858)
"June" (1848)
"Lines" (1849)
"Longing" (1843)
"Masaccio" in The Knickerbocker Gallery (1855)
"Memoriae Positum" (1863)
"The Miner" in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (106) (1866)
"Monna Lisa"
"My Portrait Gallery" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (2) (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" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (1) (1857)
"The Present Crisis" (1845)
- "Once to Every Man and Nation" (1845)
"Rosaline"
"The Search" (1843)
"She Came and Went" (1843)
"The Shepherd of King Admetus"
"Shipwreck" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (1) (1858)
"Sonnet" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (1) (1857)
"Stanzas on Freedom" (1843)
"Threnodia on an Infant" in The Knickerbocker vol. 13, no. 5 (May 1839) (signed as "H. P.")
"To Charles Eliot Norton" (1869)
"To H. W. L." (1867)
"To Holmes on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday" (1884)
"To J. B." in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (105) (1866)
"To Whittier on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday" (1882)
"The Trustee's Lament" (1858)
"Under the Old Elm" as "Washington Elm" in Suggestive programs for special day exercises (1898)

Prose

"The Round Table" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (1) (1857)
"Mr. Buchanan's Administration" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (6) (1858)
"The American Tract Society" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (2) (July, 1858)
"The Pocket-Celebration of the Fourth" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (3) (August, 1858)
"A Sample of Consistency" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (6) (November, 1858)
"Francis Parkman" biography in Century Magazine (1892)
Abraham Lincoln
My Garden Acquaintance

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)
"Lowell, James Russell," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
"Lowell, James Russell," by Charles Dudley Warner in 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)

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and 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.

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