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Lowell (JAMES RUSSELL American author)

JAMES RUSSELL, American author; born in Cambridge, Mass., Feb. 22, 1819; was graduated at Harvard College in 1838. In January, 1855, he succeeded Henry W. Longfellow as Professor of Modern Languages in Harvard College. He became a high authority in old French and Provençal poetry, was the first editor of the "Atlantic Monthly" (1857), and joint editor with Prof. Charles Eliot Norton of the "North American Review" in 1863-1872.

He was United States minister to Spain in 1877-1880 and to Great Britain in 1880-1885. During his residence in London he was elected Lord Rector of St. Andrew's University in Edinburgh. Hiş works include: "Conversations on Some of the Old Poets" (1845); "Poems" (1848); "The Biglow Papers" (1848); "Life of Keats" (1854); "Poetical Works" (2 vols. 1858); "The President's Policy" (1864); "Ode recited at the Commemoration of the Living and Dead Soldiers of Harvard University" (1865); "Democracy and other Addresses" (1887); etc. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Aug. 12, 1891.