. Seven great American poets. tention, but not alwaysan earnest nor continuous attention, for all the while hefelt within himself tlie spirit of poesy craving for ex-pression. However, in the spring of 1839, he enteredthe Dane Law Scliool. Lie finished his studies at theHarvard Law School the following year, receiving thedegree of Tiddiclor of Luirx. Lowell had no desire to practice law ; in fact, he had adecided dislike for it, as the following lines plainly shi )W: Thi-y tell me I must study law. They say that I have dreamed, and dreamed too long; That I must rouse and seek for fame and ;j,o
. Seven great American poets. tention, but not alwaysan earnest nor continuous attention, for all the while hefelt within himself tlie spirit of poesy craving for ex-pression. However, in the spring of 1839, he enteredthe Dane Law Scliool. Lie finished his studies at theHarvard Law School the following year, receiving thedegree of Tiddiclor of Luirx. Lowell had no desire to practice law ; in fact, he had adecided dislike for it, as the following lines plainly shi )W: Thi-y tell me I must study law. They say that I have dreamed, and dreamed too long; That I must rouse and seek for fame and ;j,old;That I must scorn this idle gift of song. And mingle with the vain and j^roud and , then, this petty strifeThe end and aim of life,All that is worth the living for lielow ?0 Ood! Ihin citll mc lirnrt,for I irinild (jUidly go !^^* Owing, however, to the fact that his father had lostthe greater yArt of his personal pi(iperi;y, and to Lowells * Letters of James lUissell Lwivell. i cpyriglit, 1893, by Harper & 294 JAMES liUSSELL LOWELL desire to marry ^liss Maria A\liite, to wliom he had be-come engaged, the practice of law seemed to be a neces-sity as a means of earning his hvelihood. But aftergiving the matter some attention, he at last dismissed itentirely, and devoted his efforts wholly to literature. Lowell was a contributor of poems to several periodi-cals for a, year (}r two, under his o^\ll name and theassumed name of Hugh Percival. These poems woecollected and published in 1S41 as his first volume ofpoems. It was called A Yr((rs L/fi\ The} are nowpublished in the volume of Enrlicr Poring. He alsostarted a literary magazine. The Fionecr, but only threenumbers of it were published. It was wholly the lack of business ability that causedTill- Pioneer to fail, for the magazine had as its contribu-tors such -writers as Hawthorne, ^\hittier and Poe. Init appeared Hawthornes Hall of Pliiiitta%ji and PoesLenore. In one of the numljers was Lowells SoitfiWritiiii/, a
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