“Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.”
About James Russell Lowell
22 February 1819–12 August 1891
In the pantheon of American letters, few figures cast as long or complex a shadow as James Russell Lowell (1819-1891). Poet, critic, editor, diplomat, and professor, Lowell embodied the intellectual ferment of nineteenth-century New England with a breadth that few of his contemporaries could match. His life spanned…