Author:James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell
(1819–1891)

James Russell Lowell

Works

Poetry collections

• A Year's Life (1841) (transcription project)
• Miscellaneous Poems (1843)
• Poems (1844) (transcription project)
• The Biglow Papers (1848)
• A Fable for Critics (1848)
• Poems (1848)
• The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)
• Under the Willows (1869)
• The Cathedral (1870)
• Under the old elm,: and other poems (1885)
• Heartsease and Rue (1888)

Essay collections

• Conversations on the Old Poets (1844)
• Fireside Travels (1864)
• Among My Books (1870)
• My Study Windows (1871)
• Among My Books (second series, 1876)
• Democracy and Other Addresses (1886)
• Political Essays (1888)

Individual poems

• "Beatrice" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (1) (1858)
• "Beaver Brook" (1843)
• "The Changeling" (1843)
• "A Christmas Carol"
• "The Dead House" (1858)
• "Epigram on J. M." (1858)
• "Eurydice" (1843)
• "The Falcon" (1843)
• "The Finding of the Lyre" (1869)
• "The First Snowfall" (1847)
• "Fourth of July Ode"
• "The Ghost-Seer" (1845)
• "Gloria Mundi" (1875)
• "Happiness" (1858)
• "The Heritage"
• "Hunger and Cold" (1843)
• "Irené (1841)
• "Italy, 1859" in The Atlantic Monthly, 4 (26) (1858)
• "June" (1848)
• "Lines" (1849)
• "Longing" (1843)
• "Memoriae Positum" (1863)
• "The Miner" in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (106) (1866)
• "Monna Lisa"
• "My Portrait Gallery" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (2) (1857)
• "The Nest" (1858)
• "Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration" (1865)
• "On Board the '76" (1864)
• "On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves Near Washington" (1845)
• "The Origin of Didactic Poetry" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (1) (1857)
• "The Present Crisis" (1845)
  • "Once to Every Man and Nation" (1845)
• "Rosaline"
• "The Search" (1843)
• "She Came and Went" (1843)
• "The Shepherd of King Admetus"
• "Shipwreck" in The Atlantic Monthly, 2 (1) (1858)
• "Sonnet" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (1) (1857)
• "Stanzas on Freedom" (1843)
• "To Charles Eliot Norton" (1869)
• "To H. W. L." (1867)
• "To Holmes on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday" (1884)
• "To J. B." in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (105) (1866)
• "To Whittier on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday" (1882)
• "The Trustee's Lament" (1858)
• "Under the Old Elm" as "Washington Elm" in Suggestive programs for special day exercises (1898)

Prose

• "The Round Table" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (1) (1857)
• "Francis Parkman" biography in Century Magazine (1892)

Works about Lowell

• "The Two Angels" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1853) was written for Lowell's first wife, Maria White.
• "The Herons of Elmwood" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is about Lowell's home in Cambridge, MA
• "Farewell to J. R. Lowell" by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1855)
• "At a Birthday Festival" by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1859)
• "J. R. L." by Christopher Pearse Cranch (1869)
• "A Welcome to Lowell" by John Greenleaf Whitter" (1885)
• "On the Musical Service Held in Commemoration of James Russell Lowell" by Julia Ward Howe (1891)
• "James Russell Lowell" by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1891)
• "Lowell, James Russell," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Lowell, James Russell," by Charles Dudley Warner in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "Lowell, James Russell," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Lowell, James Russell," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)