The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . ved monthly, The Pioneer (1843). He put forth avolume of Poems in 1844; The Vision of Sir Launfalin 1845 ; Conversations on Some of the Old Poets in1845, and more/ViWi-in 1848. His reputation as ahumorist and satirist was established by The Big-low Papers and A Fable for Critics (1848); theformer, directed against the slave system and theMexican War, attracted great attention Lowell tr
The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . ved monthly, The Pioneer (1843). He put forth avolume of Poems in 1844; The Vision of Sir Launfalin 1845 ; Conversations on Some of the Old Poets in1845, and more/ViWi-in 1848. His reputation as ahumorist and satirist was established by The Big-low Papers and A Fable for Critics (1848); theformer, directed against the slave system and theMexican War, attracted great attention Lowell travelled in Europe in 1851-52, lect-ured before the Lowell Institute at Boston, 1854-56, on the British Poets; and in 1855 succeededLongfellow as Professor of Modern Languagesand Belles-Lettres at Harvard. He edited theAtlantic Monthly from its start to 1862, and theNorth American Review from 1863-72, contributinglargely to both. The Civil War called out muchof his finest verse, including the magnificentCom7nemoration Ode, recited at Harvard, July 21,1865, and the second series of The Biglow Papersycollected in 1867. Editions of his poems had ap-peared in 1854 and 1858; to these were added(466). JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL 46? Under the Willows, etc. (1S69); The Cathedral(1869), and Heartsease andRue(iSSS). His principalprose works are Fireside Travels {1^64); Among MyBooks (1870-76); My Study Windoles (1870); Democ-racy and Other Addresses (1887); American Ideas forEnglish Readers and Latest Literary Essays pub-lished (1893), and Letters (1894), edited by C. While abroad in 1872-74 he was honoredwith degrees by the Universities of Oxford andCambridge. He was sent as United States Min-ister to Spain in 1877, and transferred to England\S 1880, where he remained till 1885. He waselected Lord Rector of St. Andrews University,Glasgow, in 1884. Maria (White) Lowell, wife of James RussellLowell (to whom she was married in 1844), born atWatertown, Mass., in 1821; died at Cambridge i
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