Lowell, James Russell ♂

Education

Candidate for Rectorship in 1883 - elected, but not allowed to take up office by his government.

LL.D. 9.2.1884.

Birth/childhood

Born 22.2.1819 son of Rev. Charles Lowell, Cambridge, Massachusetts (who had been a divinity student at Edinburgh University 1802-1805) and Harriet Brackett Spence. [Minister]

Career

Studied at Harvard. Professor of Belles Lettres, Harvard College 1855-1886. [University professor, poet]

U.S. ambassador Madrid 1877-1880. London 1880-1885.

Foremost American man of letters of his time. Editor Atlantic Monthly 1857-1861. North American Review 1864-.

Publications

A fable for critics.(Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864)

Under the willows, and other poems.(London: Macmillan, 1869)

My study windows.(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1899)

etc.

Death

Died 12.8.1891.

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