James Russell Lowell

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James Russell Lowell
Born1812 Died1291
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-Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts on February
22nd, 1819 -Youngest of 5
-James Russell Lowell is one of the authors
belonging to a group known as the Fireside Poets,
or the Schoolroom Poets. -Lowell contributed to
the Arthurian literature by writing his poem The
Vision of Sir Launfal, which was published in
1848.
-James Russell Lowell attended Harvard University
at the age of 16 and graduated in 1838. - Lowell
could not be considered a transcendentalist,
because Lowell saw the humorous side of the
social movements of that day, and the Schoolroom
Poets wittingly attacked the abolitionists,
Carlyle Emerson, and the transcendentalist.
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LoveBy James Russell Lowell

• Our love is not a fading earthly flower
• Its wingèd seed dropped down from Paradise,
• And, nursed by day and night, by sun and shower,
• Doth momently to fresher beauty rise.
• To us the leafless autumn is not bare,
• Nor winter's rattling boughs lack lusty green
• Our summer hearts make summer's fulness where
• No leaf or bud or blossom may be seen
• For nature's life in love's deep life doth lie,
• Love,--whose forgetfulness is beauty's death,
• Whose mystic key these cells of Thou and I
• Into the infinite freedom openeth,
• And makes the body's dark and narrow grate
• The wide-flung leaves of Heaven's palace-gate.

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Bibliography

• http//www.lib.rochester.edu/Camelot/auth/lowell.h
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• http//www.sonnets.org/lowell.htm
• http//www.famousamericans.net/jamesrusselllowell/