BOOK LIST
Individual Author
James Russell Lowell. Works. Riverside Edition. 1890. 11 vols. Elmwood Edition. 1904. 16 vols. (Contains one more volume of literary essays, one more of poetry, and the three volumes of letters. C. E. Norton, editor. 1904.) These appeared in book form originally as follows: Class Poem, 1838; A Year’s Life, 1841; Poems, 1844; Conversations on Some of the Old Poets, 1845; Poems, Second Series, 1848; A Fable for Critics, 1848; The Biglow Papers, 1848; The Vision of Sir Launfal, 1848; Fireside Travels, 1864; The Biglow Papers, Second Series, 1867; Under the Willows and Other Poems, 1869; The Cathedral, 1870; Among my Books, 1870; My Study Windows, 1871; Among my Books, Second Series, 1876; Three Memorial Poems, 1877; Democracy and Other Addresses, 1887; Political Essays, 1888; Heartsease and Rue, 1888; Latest Literary Essays and Addresses, 1891; The Old English Dramatists, 1892; Last Poems, 1895; Impressions of Spain, 1899.
Bibliography
A volume compiled by George Willis Cooke. 1906. Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. II, pp. 544–550.
Biography and Criticism
The standard life is by H. E. Scudder. 1901. 2 vols.
Benton, Joel. Lowell’s Americanism. Century, November, 1891.
Brownell, W. C. American Prose Masters. 1909.
Curtis, G. W. Orations and Addresses, Vol. III. 1894.
Godkin, E. L. The Reasons why Mr. Lowell should be Recalled. Nation, June 1, 1882.
Greenslet, Ferris. Lowell: his Life and Work. 1905.
Hale, E. E. Lowell and his Friends. 1898.
Hale, E. E., Jr. Lowell. 1899.
Higginson, T. W. Book and Heart. 1897.
Higginson, T. W. Old Cambridge. 1899.
Howells, W. D. A Personal Retrospect of Lowell. Scribner’s, September, 1900.
Howells, W. D. Literary Friends and Acquaintances. 1900.
James, Henry. Essays in London. 1893.
Mabie, H. W. My Study Fire. Ser. 2. 1894.
Meynell, Alice. The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays. 1893.
Norton, C. E. James Russell Lowell. Harper’s, May, 1893.
Norton, C. E. Letters of Lowell. Harper’s, September, 1893.
Scudder, H. E. Mr. Lowell as a Teacher. Scribner’s, November, 1891.
Stillman, W. J. The Autobiography of a Journalist, chap. xiv. 1901.
Stoddard, R. H. Recollections Personal and Literary. 1903.
Taylor, Bayard. Critical Essays. 1880.
Thorndike, A. H. Cambridge History of American Literature, Vol. II, Bk. II, chap. xxiv.
Underwood, F. H. Lowell; a Biographical Sketch. 1882.
Underwood, F. H. The Poet and the Man. 1893.
Wendell, Barrett. Stelligeri. 1893.
Wilkinson, W. C. A Free Lance in the Field of Life and Letters. 1874.