CRITICISM

Brodie, Edward H., Jr. “Lowell's Biglow Papers: No. 1.” The Explicator 42, No. 4 (Summer 1984): 21-23.

Attempts to rectify a common misinterpretation of the opening poem of Lowell's Biglow Papers.

Gozzi, Raymond D. “Lowell's The Cathedral and Frost's ‘Happiness Makes Up in Height for What It Lacks in Length.’” The Explicator 45, No. 3 (Spring 1987): 28-30.

Considers the possible influence of Lowell's The Cathedral on Robert Frost's poem.

Russo, John Paul. “Isle of the Dead: Italy and the Uncanny in Arnold Böcklin, Sheridan Le Fanu, and James Russell Lowell.” Romance Languages Annual I (1989): 202-209.

Discusses the image of Italy as a “land of death” in Lowell's travelogues.

Tucker, Edward L. “James Russell Lowell and Robert Carter: The Pioneer and Fifty Letters from Lowell to Carter.” Studies in the American Renaissance (1987): 187-246.

Details the collaboration of Lowell and Robert Carter on the short-lived literary periodical, the Pioneer.

Wortham, Thomas. “William Cullen Bryant and the Fireside Poets.” In Columbia Literary History of the United States, edited by Emory Elliott, pp. 278-88. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988.

Includes a brief discussion of Lowell's influence on American literary culture in the 1840s.

Additional coverage of Lowell's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Concise Dictionary of American Literary Biography, 1640-1865; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 1, 11, 64, 79, 189.