Male : Poet and Critic. Married Maria White in 1844 (died 1853) & Frances Dunlap in 1857. Editor of the "National Anti-Slavery Standard" 1848-52 & first editor of the "Atlantic Monthly" 1857-61

Nationality : American Place of Birth : Cambridge, Massachusetts

Date of Birth : 1819 Date of Death : 1891 Age : 72

Pseudonyms : Homer Wilbur

Other Work : Smith Professor of French & Spanish at Harvard 1855-86

Education : Harvard & Harvard Law School

1839-1845
Class Poem (1839 Metcalf, Torrey & Ballou, Cambridge) - Anon
A Year's Life & Other Poems (1841)
Poems (1844)
Conversations on Some of the Old Poets (1845 John Owen, Cambridge, Mass) (1846 2nd Ed)

1846-1860
Poems : Second Series (1848 George Nichols, Cambridge / Mussey, Boston)
A Fable for Critics ..That is a Series of Jokes by A Wonderful Quiz (1848 Putnam NY) - Anon
The Biglow Papers : First Series (1848 G Nichols) (1848 Putnam NY) - by Homer Wilbur
Meliboeus Hipponax : The Biglow Papers (1848 G Nichols)
The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848 Geo Nichols, Cambridge)
Poems (1849) - 2 vols
(Ed) The Poems of Maria Lowell (1855)
(Ed) The Poetical Works of Dr John Donne (1855)
(Ed) The Poetical Works of Andrew Marvell (1857)
The Biglow Papers : Newly Edited (1859 Trubner, London)

1861-1880
The Biglow Papers : Second Series (1862) - 3 vols (1867 Ticknor & Fields, Boston)
Il Pesceballo : Opera Seria (1862 Riverside Press, Cambridge) - with Francis J Child
Fireside Travels (1864)
Ode Recited at the Commemoration of the Living and Dead Soldiers of Harvard University (1865)
Under the Willows and Other Poems (1869 Fields, Osgood) (1869 Macmillan)
Poetical Works (1869)
Among My Books (1870 Fields, Osgood, Boston)
The Cathedral (1870 Fields, Osgood) - 3016
My Study Windows (1871)
The Complete Poetical Works (1874 Macmillan. 2nd Ed)
The Courtin' (1874 Osgood, Boston) - Winslow Homer
Among My Books : Second Series (1876 Osgood)
A Moosehead Journal (1877 Osgood)
Three Memorial Poems (1877)
The Rose (1878 Osgood)

1881-1900
Under the Old Elm and Other Poems (1885)
Democracy and Other Essays (1887 Houghton Mifflin)
The Independent in Politics (1888)
Political Essays (1888)
The English Poets : Lessing, Rousseau - Essays (1888)
Heartsease and Rue (1888 Boston) (1888 Macmillan)
Books and Libraries and Other Papers (1889)
The Writings (1890-2 Cambridge) - 12 vols. + Large Paper Ed. Edited by Charles Eliot Norton
Latest Literary Essays & Addresses (1891)
The Old English Dramatists (1892)
American Ideas for English Readers : Lectures (1892)
Works (1892 Houghton Mifflin) - 11 vols
Letters : Edited by Charles Eliot Norton (1894) - 2 vols
Last poems (1895) - Edited by Charles Eliot Norton
Lectures on English Poets (1897 The Rowfant Club, Cleveland) - 224 numbered
The Complete Poetical Works (1897 Houghton Mifflin)
Impressions of Spain (1899) - Edited by Joseph B Gilder

20thC
Early Prose Writings (1902)
The Anti-Slavery Papers (1902) - 2 vols. Edited by W B Parker
The Complete Writings (1904) - 16 vols. Edited by Charles Eliot Norton
Four Poems (1906)
The Round Table (1913)
The Function of the Poet & Other Papers (1920) - Edited by Albert Mordell
New Letters (1932) - Edited by M A De Wolfe Howe
The Pioneer (Magazine) (1947) - Edited by Sculley Bradley
Essays, Poems and Letters (1948) - Edited by W S Clark II
Uncollected Poems (1950) - Edited by Thelma M Smith
The Scholar-Friends : Letters of Francis James Child and Lowell (1952)
Undergraduate Verses : Rhymed Minutes of the Hasty pudding Club (1956)
- Edited by Charles Eliot Norton
Literary Criticism (1969) - Edited by Herbert F Smith

READING
Horace E Scudder : James Russell Lowell (1901) - 2 vols
Richmond C Beatty : James Russell Lowell (1942)
Leon Howard : Victorian Knight-Errant - A Study of the Early Literary Career of James Russell Lowell
(1952)
Martin B Duberman : James Russell Lowell (1966)
Claire McGinchee : James Russell Lowell (1967)
Edward C Wagenknecht : James Russell Lowell - Portrait of a Many-Sided Man (1971)