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Lowell begins this volume of essays with a charming "Apology for a Preface." The bulk of the book discusses English poets: Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Milton, William Wordsworth, and John Keats. The author then turns his eye to the German writer Gotthold Ephraim Lessing as well as French-born Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Sentimentalists.
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This volume, published in the year of the author's death, collects some of Lowell's most intellectually stimulating pieces. Included are studies of Walter Savage Landor, Milton's "Areopagitica," Shakespeare's "Richard III," modern languages, and the world's progress, among others. The editor also includes lectures given by Lowell in 1887 on the Old English Dramatists-"Marlowe," Webster," "Chapman," "Beaumont and Fletcher," and "Massinger and Ford."...
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This 1886 collection of public addresses by Lowell features nine speeches, including "Democracy," a lecture given at Lowell's assumption of the Presidency of the Birmingham and Midland Institute; "Books and Libraries," given at the opening of the Free Public Library in Chelsea, Massachusetts; "Coleridge;" "Wordsworth;" and "Don Quixote;" among others. According to a contemporary review in the Nation, "in this volume there is the authentic impress...
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Posthumously published in 1892, this volume collects six lectures given by Lowell in 1887. According to editor Charles Eliot Norton, "The lectures were never revised by Mr. Lowell for publication, but they contain such admirable and interesting criticism... that it has seemed to me that they should be given to the public." Included are: "Marlowe," Webster," "Chapman," "Beaumont and Fletcher," and "Massinger and Ford."
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