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Born in February 22, 1819 / Died in August 12, 1891 / United States / English

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WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKS

  • Class Poem (Cambridge, Mass.: Metcalf, Torry & Ballou, 1838).
  • A Year's Life (Boston: Little, Brown, 1841).
  • Poems (Cambridge, Mass.: John Owen, 1844).
  • Conversations on Some of the Old Poets (Cambridge, Mass.: John Owen, 1845; London: Clarke, 1845).
  • Poems. Second Series (Cambridge, Mass.: Nichols / Boston: Mussey, 1848).
  • A Fable for Critics (New York: Putnam, 1848; London: Chapman, 1848).
  • The Biglow Papers (Cambridge, Mass.: Nichols, 1848; London: Trübner, 1859).
  • The Vision of Sir Launfal (Cambridge, Mass.: Nichols, 1848).
  • Poems, 2 volumes (Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1849).
  • The Biglow Papers. Second Series, in 3 parts (London: Trübner, 1862); 3 parts collected in 1 volume (London: Trübner, 1864; Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867).
  • Fireside Travels (Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1864; London: Macmillan, 1864).
  • Ode Recited at the Commemoration of the Living and Dead Soldiers of Harvard University, July 21, 1865 (Cambridge, Mass.: Privately printed, 1865).
  • Under The Willows and Other Poems (Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1869).
  • The Cathedral (Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1870).
  • Among My Books (Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1870; London: Macmillan, 1870).
  • My Study Windows (Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1871).
  • Among My Books. Second Series (Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1876; London: Low, 1876).
  • Three Memorial Poems (Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1877).
  • On Democracy: An Address Delivered in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on the 6th of October, 1884 (Birmingham, U.K.: Cond, 1884).
  • Democracy and Other Addresses (Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1887).
  • Early Poems (New York: Alden, 1887).
  • Heartsease and Rue (Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1888; London: Macmillan, 1888).
  • Political Essays (Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1888).
  • The Independent in Politics (New York & London: Putnam, 1888).
  • The Writings of James Russell Lowell, Riverside Edition, 10 volumes (Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1890).
  • Latest Literary Essays and Addresses, edited by Charles Eliot Norton (Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892; London: Macmillan, 1892).
  • American Ideas for English Readers, with introduction by Henry Stone (Boston: Cupples, 1892).
  • The Old English Dramatists, edited by Norton (Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892; London: Macmillan, 1892).
  • Last Poems, edited by Norton (Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1895).
  • The Power of Sound: A Rhymed Lecture (New York: Gilliss, 1896).
  • Lectures on English Poets, edited by S. A. Jones (Cleveland: Rowfant Club, 1897).
  • Impressions of Spain, compiled by Joseph B. Gilder (Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1899).
  • Early Prose Writings (London & New York: John Lane, 1902).
  • The Anti-Slavery Papers of James Russell Lowell, 2 volumes (Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1902).
  • The Round Table (Boston: Badger, 1913).
  • The Function of the Poet and Other Essays, edited by Albert Mordell (Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1920).
  • Uncollected Poems, edited by Thelma M. Smith (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1950).
Collection
  • The Complete Writings of James Russell Lowell, Elmwood Edition, edited by Norton, 16 volumes (Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1904).
OTHER
  • The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With Notices of His Life and Genius, 2 volumes, edited by Lowell, N. P. Willis, and R. W. Griswold (New York: Redfield, Clinton Hall, 1850).
  • The Poetical Works of John Keats, edited by Lowell (Boston: Little, Brown; New York: Evans & Dickerson; Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, 1854).
  • The Poems of Maria Lowell, edited by Lowell (Cambridge: Privately printed, 1855).
  • The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 3 volumes, edited by Lowell (Boston: Little, Brown; New York: Dickerson; Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, 1855).
  • The Poetical Works of Dr. John Donne, edited by Lowell (Boston: Little, Brown; New York: Dickerson; Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1855).
  • The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell, edited by Lowell (Boston: Little, Brown; Cincinnati: Moore, Wilstach, Keys, 1857).
  • The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton, 2 volumes, edited by Lowell (Boston: Little, Brown, 1889).
LETTERS
  • Letters of James Russell Lowell, edited by Charles Eliot Norton, 2 volumes (London: Osgood, McIlvaine, 1893; New York: Harper, 1893); expanded edition, 3 volumes (Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1904).
  • New Letters of James Russell Lowell, edited by M. A. DeWolfe Howe (New York & London: Harper, 1932).
  • The Scholar-Friends: Letters of Francis James Child and James Russell Lowell, edited by Howe and G. W. Cottrell Jr. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952).
  • James C. Austin, Fields of the Atlantic Monthly: Letters to an Editor, 1861-1870 (San Marino, Cal.: Huntington Library, 1953).
  • James L. Woodress Jr., "The Lowell-Howells Friendship: Some Unpublished Letters," New England Quarterly, 26 (December 1953): 523-528.
  • Philip Graham, "Some Lowell Letters," Texas Studies in Literature and Language, 3 (Winter 1962): 557-582.
  • Browning to His American Friends: Letters between the Brownings, the Storys and James Russell Lowell, 1841-1890, edited by Gertrude Reese Hudson (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1965).
  • Transatlantic Dialogue, edited by Paul F. Mattheisen and Michael Millgate (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965).
  • "James Russell Lowell and Robert Carter: The Pioneer and Fifty Letters from Lowell to Carter," edited by Edward L. Tucker, in Studies in the American Renaissance 1987, edited by Joel Myerson (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1987), pp. 187-246.
  • Portrait of a Friendship Drawn from New Letters of James Russell Lowell to Sybella Lady Lyttelton, 1881-1891, edited by Alethea Hayter (Wilton, U.K.: Michael Russell, 1990).