The morning call., 1893-06-11

qualified to deal with his subject. HIS
references to the early life of the poet are
interesting. The following extract would
appear 10 show that Lowell vas not
al avs the idol of the Bostonians which
he afterward came to be-: before 1850 an
ordinary BosiOnan, as we'll as most people
IN society," would have said, il inquired
OF, That Lowell was a hare-bralned fellow
with some knack at verse-making-a
friend of fanatics and come-outers.
Ike Abby Folsom and Father Lam
son. man out of touch with The
Isword, and dreamer of Utopian dreams.
ana, so much is the Judgment controlled
ov personal prejudice, few critics were
GlSposed to consider his claims as poet.
de was more frequently pooh -poohed than
praised, and his books had very few buy
ers. 1t would have greatly astonlshed the
exalted society in which Everett, 1lcknor,
Prescott, Hillard and Harvard professors
moved If It had been f0retod that this
i9ng-halred youth, who cons0rted with
garrison and other Impossible foik, aad
sat without shame with women orators
and freed slaves upon public platforms.
W0Gld IN forty years be one OF the most
distinguished of Americans, satirist and
poet Of worldwide fame; one OF the lew
great writer's Of brilliant and learned prose,
and the most hOnored of foreign Minis
ters."
While Mr.. Underwood's "Recollections"
40 not claim to cover Mr.. Lowers whole
NE, they belong to a period when his feel.
lngs were fresh ana his creative power full
OF Vlgnr. Two portraits are given, one
taken about the age of so and one after 70
years OF age. There is also facsimile of
Two Two stanzas of poem, written In 1858.
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