James Russell Lowell (Critical Survey of Poetry)
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Besides thirteen volumes of poetry, James Russell Lowell published during his lifetime ten collections of essays, most of which had already been printed in periodicals. The ten collections centered themselves on literary criticism, arising from his scholarly duties as professor of modern languages and literature at Harvard University (1855-1886), and political theory, arising from his contact with the Republican Party and his role as American ambassador to Spain (1877-1880) and England (1880-1887). The criticism—Conversations on Some of the Old...
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