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(0)James Russell Lowell
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Excerpt: "When the rule limiting speeches to an hour was adopted by Congress, which was before most of you were born, an eminent but somewhat discursive person spent more than that measure of time in convincing me that whoever really had anything to say could say it in less. I then and there acquired a conviction of this truth, which has only strengthened with years. Yet whoever undertakes to lecture must adapt his discourse to the law which requires...
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This 1888 collection brings together the abolitionist poet's writings from the Civil War. Included are "The American Tract Society," "The Election in November," "E Pluribus Unum," "The Pickens-And-Stealin's Rebellion," "The Rebellion: Its Causes and Consequences," "McClellan or Lincoln?", "Reconstruction," "Scotch the Snake, or Kill It?", and "The President on the Stump."
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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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The popular success of Lowell's Among My Books series encouraged him to publish this eclectic collection, which includes "My Garden Acquaintance," "A Good Word for Winter," "On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners," "A Great Public Character," "Abraham Lincoln," "Carlyle," and "Library of Old Authors."
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Dedicated to Ralph Waldo Emerson, this 1893 collection of critical writings includes assessments of classic poets and philosophers: Dryden, Shakespeare, Lessing, and Rousseau. Also included are chapters on "Witchcraft," "New England Two Centuries Ago," and "The Sentimentalists."
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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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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."...
11) Abraham Lincoln
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When Lincoln took office as President of the United States, the nation was fraught with problems, not the least of which was slavery and the danger of secession. This biography relates how Lincoln dealt with the problems with thought and wisdom. James Russell Lowell (February 22, 1819 — August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among...