George William Curtis:  James Russell Lowell:  An Address.

John Churton Collins. Studies in Poetry and Criticism, “Poetry and
Poets of America.”  Excellent as an English estimate.

Barrett Wendell:  Literary History of America and Stelligeri, “Mr.
Lowell as a Teacher.”

Henry James:  Essays in London and Library of the World’s Best
Literature.

George E. Woodberry:  Makers of Literature.

William Watson:  Excursions in Criticism.

W.D.  Howells:  Literary Friends and Acquaintance.

Charles E. Richardson:  American Literature.

M.A.  DeWolfe Howe:  American Bookmen.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson:  Old Cambridge.

Frank Preston Stearns:  Cambridge Sketches. 1905.

Richard Burton:  Literary Leaders of America. 1904.

John White Chadwick:  Chambers’s Cyclopedia of English Literature.

Hamilton Wright Mabie:  My Study Fire.  Second Series, “Lowell’s
Letters.”

Margaret Fuller:  Art, Literature and the Drama. 1859.

Richard Henry Stoddard:  Recollections, Personal and Literary, “At
Lowell’s Fireside.”

Edwin P. Whipple:  Outlooks on Society, Literature and Politics,
“Lowell as a Prose Writer.”

H.R.  Haweis:  American Humorists.

Bayard Taylor:  Essays and Notes.

G.W.  Smalley:  London Letters, Vol. 1., “Mr. Lowell, why the English liked him.”

THE POETS’ TRIBUTES TO LOWELL

Longfellow’s Herons of Elmwood; Whittier’s A Welcome to Lowell; Holmes’s Farewell to Lowell, At a Birthday Festival, and To James Russell Lowell; Aldrich’s Elmwood; Margaret J. Preston’s Home-Welcome to Lowell; Richard Watson Gilder’s Lowell; Christopher P. Cranch’s To J.R.L. on His Fiftieth Birthday, and To J.R.L. on His Homeward Voyage; James Kenneth Stephen’s In Memoriam; James Russell Lowell, “Lapsus Calami and Other Verses”; William W. Story’s To James Russell Lowell, Blackwood’s Magazine, Vol. 150; Eugene Field’s James Russell Lowell; Edith Thomas’s On Reading Lowell’s “Heartsease and Rue."

THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL

AND OTHER POEMS

THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL

PRELUDE TO PART FIRST

    Over his keys the musing organist,
      Beginning doubtfully and far away,
    First lets his fingers wander as they list,
      And builds a bridge from Dreamland for his lay: 
    Then, as the touch of his loved instrument 5
      Gives hope and fervor, nearer draws his theme,
    First guessed by faint auroral flushes sent
      Along the wavering vista of his dream.