James Russell Lowell
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The popular success of Lowell's Among My Books series encouraged him to publish this eclectic collection, which includes "My Garden Acquaintance," "A Good Word for Winter," "On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners," "A Great Public Character," "Abraham Lincoln," "Carlyle," and "Library of Old Authors."
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Lowell begins this volume of essays with a charming "Apology for a Preface." The bulk of the book discusses English poets: Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Milton, William Wordsworth, and John Keats. The author then turns his eye to the German writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing as well as French-born Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Sentimentalists.
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This volume, published in the year of the author's death, collects some of Lowell's most intellectually stimulating pieces. Included are studies of Walter Savage Landor, Milton's "Areopagitica," Shakespeare's "Richard III," modern languages, and the world's progress, among others. The editor also includes lectures given by Lowell in 1887 on the Old English Dramatists-"Marlowe," Webster," "Chapman," "Beaumont and Fletcher," and "Massinger and Ford."...
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Posthumously published in 1892, this volume collects six lectures given by Lowell in 1887. According to editor Charles Eliot Norton, "The lectures were never revised by Mr. Lowell for publication, but they contain such admirable and interesting criticism... that it has seemed to me that they should be given to the public." Included are: "Marlowe," Webster," "Chapman," "Beaumont and Fletcher," and "Massinger and Ford."
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This 1886 collection of public addresses by Lowell features nine speeches, including "Democracy," a lecture given at Lowell's assumption of the Presidency of the Birmingham and Midland Institute; "Books and Libraries," given at the opening of the Free Public Library in Chelsea, Massachusetts; "Coleridge;" "Wordsworth;" and "Don Quixote;" among others. According to a contemporary review in the Nation, "in this volume there is the authentic impress...
10) Political Essays
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This 1888 collection brings together the abolitionist poet's writings from the Civil War. Included are "The American Tract Society," "The Election in November," "E Pluribus Unum," "The Pickens-And-Stealin's Rebellion," "The Rebellion: Its Causes and Consequences," "McClellan or Lincoln?", "Reconstruction," "Scotch the Snake, or Kill It?", and "The President on the Stump."
11) Abraham Lincoln
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When Lincoln took office as President of the United States, the nation was fraught with problems, not the least of which was slavery and the danger of secession. This biography relates how Lincoln dealt with the problems with thought and wisdom. James Russell Lowell (February 22, 1819 — August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among...