The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1891-08-20
TO THE COURT OF GOD.
J. RUSSELL LOWELL'S SPIRIT
HAS FLED.

The Renowned Poet and Diplomat Dies at
the Age of 72-Sketcia of His Life and
Literary Successes--A Typical Ameri-
can.
James Russell Lowell, the great
! American poet and diplomat, died at
Cambridge, Mass. He was born in that
city Feb. %, 1919. He graduated at
Harvard College in 1888, and studied
law, but soon abandoned law for litera-
ture. Before leaving college he pub
lShed class poem. A volume of mis-
cellaneous poems entitled "a Years
Life" appeared in 1871; new colIec-
tion, containing a "Legend of Brittany"
"Prometheus" and others, in 1914; "Con-
Iyersations on Some of the Old Poets"
containing series of well-studed crit
iciSms, both in prose and verse, giving
indica lions OF Mr.. Lowell's interest in
the various political and philanthropic
questions of the day and of his,
attachment to those principles of
which he has since been the champion,
in 1S45; thirl collection of poems and
"The Vision of Sir Iaunfal," founded on
legend of the search for the San Grael,
in 1S4S; "a Fable for Critics, in which he
satirically passed in review the litterati
OF the United States, and his mos re-
markable work, 1.-THE Biglow Papers,"
a collection of humorous poems on
political subjects, written by Hosea
,Biglow," in the Yankee dialect, in 1S4S.
"Fireside Travels" including graphic
papers on Cambridge in Old times, and
the second series of the "Biglow Papers'
appeared in 1864.
In 1869 Mr.. Lowell published "Under
the Willows and Other Foems," and near
the close of the same year "Ihe
Cathedral" an epic poem; in 1870 a col
lected volume Of essays entitled among
My Books" and in 1871 "My Study
appeared in 1876 In 1855 he succeeded
Longfellow as professor of modern Ian
guages and belleS-lettreS in Harvard Col
ilege. The degree of d. c. L. was con-
Iferred upon him in 1879 by the English
university of Oxford, and that of LII.
d. by Cambridge in 1874. The latter de-
gree he received also from ST. Andrews,
Edinburgh, Harvard and Bologna. From
1857 to 1862 he was editor of the
IAtlGTltic Monthly, and he had previously
been connected with The Pioneer, a
magazine of high character, the ATltd-
iSL0UeTW Standard, Pltt4lG1n'S M07lthLy,
and from 1864 to 1866 was editor of the
North american ReUie1U. He had also
been lecturer before the Lowell Insti-
itute, in Boston, on the British poets.
Toward the close Of 1874 Mr.. Lowell
was offered the post of Minister to Rus
STA, which he declined, but in 1877 ac-
icepted that Of Minister to Spain, from
which he was transferred in 1880 to that
of Minister to Great Britain. On the
change of administration in 1885 he re-
signed this position and returned to the
%ad 40 bn vv,Hi oh 6a
delivered in England were republished
in 1887 under the title of Democracy
and Other Addresses Though a life
long Republican, Mr.. Lowell supported
the candidacy of Mr.. Cleveland for re-
election to the presidency in 1888. Dur
ing the slavery agitation prior to the
civil war he was prominent advocate
for its abolition, and had been equally
outspoken in more recent years in urging
the reform of the civil service.
"Harvardiana," which Mr.. Lowell
edited in 1878, was notable poem,
composed under peculiar circumstances.
At the time OF writing It the collegiate
senior was undergoing brief period Of
rustication at Concord in consequence
of ihattention to his text books. His
forced Sojourn in this Arcadia Of scholar
ship and reform brought him into re-
lationship with the transcendentalists,
who at that time were in the habit Of
gathering at the home Of Emerson, with
whom then began that friendship which,
despite the playful sallies of the younger
poet in his earlier writings, only termi-
mated with the death of the elder The
young satifist saw the humorous side Of
the social movements of the day, and the
class poem, scintillating with wit, at
tackled the abolitionists, Carlyle. Emer-
son and the transcendentalists.
In the winter OF 1887 Mr.. Lowell read
a paper before the Union League Club,
of Chicago, on the authorship Of
Orchard I'LL" Since his return to pri-
vate life Mr.. Lowell's home had been
with his only child, the wife of Edward
Burnett, at Southboro, Mass.