The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
Lyric Meditation, Yankee Dialect Satire, Civic Reform, and the New England Literary RenaissanceBy James Russell Lowell
Length28h 8m
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The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell gathers the varied achievement of a major nineteenth-century American poet, from the urbane wit of A Fable for Critics and the New England dialect satire of The Biglow Papers to reflective lyrics, nature poems, elegies, and later meditations such as "Under the Willows" and "The Cathedral." Lowell's verse moves fluently between Romantic inwardness, Transcendentalist moral idealism, classical allusion, and the specifically American idioms of politics, regional speech, and reform. Read as a whole, the volume reveals how comedy and earnestness, public conviction and private sorrow, coexist within his accomplished, often rhetorically expansive style. Born into Boston's cultivated Brahmin milieu, Lowell was educated at Harvard and shaped by the intellectual and moral ferment of antebellum New England. His marriage into the abolitionist circle surrounding Maria White Lowell, his opposition to slavery, and his engagement with reform movements gave his poetry an unusually direct relation to public life. As a professor, editor of The Atlantic Monthly, literary critic, and later diplomat, he participated centrally in the formation of American literary culture while retaining a poet's responsiveness to landscape, memory, and loss. This comprehensive collection is recommended to readers seeking both an introduction to Lowell and a fuller understanding of nineteenth-century American letters. It rewards attention to historical context while remaining lively through its satire, musical language, humane intelligence, and shifting poetic voices.
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GenrePoetry
Length28 hrs 8 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 24, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Papers from Lilliput (Annotated)
26III
2EARLIER POEMS
27SONG
3THE SIRENS
28ROSALINE
4IRENÉ
29A REQUIEM
5SERENADE
30A PARABLE
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6WITH A PRESSED FLOWER
31SONG
7THE BEGGAR
32II
8MY LOVE
33III
9SUMMER STORM
34IV
10LOVE
35V
11TO PERDITA, SINGING
36VI
12THE MOON
37VII
13REMEMBERED MUSIC
38VIII
14SONG
39IX
15ALLEGRA
40X
16THE FOUNTAIN
41XI
17II
42XII
18III
43XIII
19THE FATHERLAND
44XIV
20THE FORLORN
45XV
21MIDNIGHT
46XVI
22A PRAYER
47XVII
23THE HERITAGE
48XVIII
24I
49XIX
25II
50XX
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