PREFACE

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER I ELMWOOD AND THE LOWELLS

CHAPTER II SCHOOL AND COLLEGE 1826-1838

CHAPTER III FIRST VENTURES 1838-1844

CHAPTER IV IN THE ANTI-SLAVERY RANKS 1845-1849

CHAPTER V A FABLE FOR CRITICS, THE BIGLOW PAPERS, AND THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL 1847-1848

CHAPTER VI SIX YEARS 1845-1851

CHAPTER VII FIFTEEN MONTHS IN EUROPE 1851-1852

CHAPTER VIII AN END AND A BEGINNING 1852-1857

CHAPTER IX THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY 1857-1861

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

A BIOGRAPHY

BY

HORACE ELISHA SCUDDER

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. I

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

A Biography

BY

HORACE ELISHA SCUDDER

IN TWO VOLUMES

VOL. I.

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BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1901


COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY HORACE E. SCUDDER
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PUBLISHED NOVEMBER, 1901



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