James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell was born in 1819 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the son of a pastor. A Harvard graduate of 1838, he studied law and then turned from the bar to letters; the magazine he founded in 1843 stopped after three issues. Married in 1844 to the poet Maria White, he wrote for the anti-slavery press, in Philadelphia among other places. He lost her in 1853; of their four children, only one daughter survived. He succeeded Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at Harvard, edited the newly founded Atlantic Monthly, represented his country in Spain and then in England, and died in Cambridge in 1891.

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• PoetryA Fable for CriticsJames Russell Lowell · 1848Literature