The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell

ISBN 10: 076619485X / ISBN 13: 9780766194854

Edité par Kessinger Publishing Co Apr 2005, 2005

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Neuware - 1848. Lowell is one of the group of authors sometimes called the Fireside Poets, or the Schoolroom Poets, a group which also included Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Because of their conservative approach to verse and the often blatant morality in their poetry, the very qualities that made them popular in their day, have put them out of favor for much of the twentieth century. However, given that Lowell was an ardent abolitionist he may not have been considered conservative in his day. This volume contains a biographical sketch, earlier poems, miscellaneous poems, memorial verses, The Biglow Papers; Under the Willows and other poems; Poems of the War; Heartsease and Rue and Last Poems.

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• Titre: The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
• Éditeur: Kessinger Publishing Co Apr 2005
• Date de parution: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 076619485X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780766194854
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 229 L x 152 H x 29 P (en millimètres) 229 millimètres de largeur par 152 millimètres de hauteur par 29 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 751 grammes

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

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The present Cambridge Edition of Mr. Lowell spoems contains, substantially in the order established by the aathor, the poems included by him not long before his death in the definitive Riverside Edition of his writings, and in addition the small group contained in theL ast Poems collected by his literary executor, Mr. Charles Eliot Norton. In the brief Prefatory Note to the four volumes of his Poems in the Riverside Edition, Mr. LoweU said: There are a great many pieces in these volumes, especially in the first of them, which I would gladly suppress or put into the Coventry of smaller print in an appendix. But ilka mon maun dree his weird, and the avenging litera scripta manet is that of the over-hasty author. Owing to the unjust distinction made by the law between literary and other property, most of what I published prematurely has lost the protection of copyright, and is reprinted by others against my will. I cannot shake off the burthen of my early indiscretions if I would. The best way, perhaps, is to accept with silent contrition the consequences of ones own mistakes, and I have, after much hesitation, consented to the reprinting of the old editions without excision. 1must confess, however, that I have attained this pitch of self-sacrifice only by compulsion, and should have greatly preferred to increase the value of this collection by lessening its bulk. The judicious reader will, I fear, distinguish only too easily what I should wish, in parliamentary phrase, to be taken as read. As we grow older, we grow the more willing to say, asP etrarca in Lander sF entameron says to Boccaccio, We neither of us are such poets as we thought ourselves when we were younger. The Editor of this volume has not felt at liberty either to add poems left by the author in the deepening obscurity of old magazines, or to follow the probable judgment of Mr. Lowell in reducing
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