The versatility of American poet, editor, and diplomat James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) made him an influential figure in 19th-century America. James Russell Lowell was born in Cambridge, Mass., on Feb. 22, 1819, of a well-established New England...

Despite controversies about the significance of his critical writings, James Russell Lowell stands alongside Edgar Allan Poe as one of the two most important literary critics America produced before 1850. Unlike Poe, however, Lowell became in his own...

To remember James Russell Lowell primarily as a humorist might seem to encourage one to ignore the great bulk of his literary work, at least as it is measured quantitatively, and to focus on that aspect of his achievement about which he sometimes felt...

IN his later years James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) was considered America's major man of letters of the age. However, posterity has been less kind to him. Today he is little read and is generally regarded as not being in quite the same league...

Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 The Background For Literature Beginnings: Poetry sprang up slowly in America because the majority of men and women in Virginia, New England, and the other new colonies were simple, hard-working people faced with the hard tasks of a new life. The...

Today is Friday, June 29, the 180th day of 2007. There are 185 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On June 29, 1776, the Virginia state constitution was adopted, and Patrick Henry made governor.On this date:In 1767, the British Parliament approved the Townshend Acts,...

In the following essay, Bell studies Lowell's ballad lectures as they outline a Romantic perception of American nationalism.

In the following essay, Wagenknecht analyzes Lowell's literary aesthetic.

In the following essay, Heymann details Lowell's life and writings of the 1840s, particularly his works of 1848: Poems, A Fable for Critics, The Biglow Papers, and The Vision of Sir Launfal.