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A Year's Life and the Other Poems, 1841; "The Present Crisis," Poems, 1844; Conversations on Some of the Old Poets, 1845; Poems, 1848; "Fable for Critics," 1848; The Biglow Papers, 1848, (poems, second series, 1867); "Vision of Sir Launfal," 1848 (e-text); "Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemorations," 1865 (devoted to Abraham Lincoln); "The Cathedral," 1870 (long poem); My Study Windows, 1871 (essays); Among My Books, 1870, 1876 (literary criticism).

Editor, The Pioneer, a short-lived journal published in Boston.

First Editor, Atlantic Monthly

The complete writings of James Russell Lowell. 16 vols. Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1904. PS2300 .F04

The complete poetical works of James Russell Lowell. Ed. Horace E. Scudder. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1924. PS2305 .A1

The Pioneer. A literary magazine. Ed. James Russell Lowell. With an introd. by Sculley Bradley. NY: Scholars' Facsims. & Reprints, 1947. AP2 .P592

Literary criticism of James Russell Lowell. Ed. Herbert F. Smith. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1969. PS2315 S6

The English poets: Lessing, Rousseau; essays. With "An apology for a preface." Port Washington, NY: Kennikat P, 1970. PS2322 E5

James Russell Lowell's The Biglow papers, first series. DeKalb: Northern Illinois UP, 1977. PS2306 .A1

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Beatty, Richmond C. James Russell Lowell. Hamden, Conn: Archon Books, 1969. PS2331 B4

Duberman, Martin B. James Russell Lowell. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1966. PS2331 .D8

Hale, Edward E. James Russell Lowell and his friends. NY: Houghton, Mifflin, 1899. PS2331 .H3

Heymann, C. David. American aristocracy: the lives and times of James Russell, Amy, and Robert Lowell. NY: Dodd, Mead, 1980. PS129 .H44

Howard, Leon. Victorian knight-errant; a study of the early literary career of James Russell Lowell. Berkeley: U of California P, 1952. PS2331 .H6

McGlinchee, Claire. James Russell Lowell. NY: Twayne, 1967. PS2331 .M3

Pollak, Gustav. International perspective in criticism. Goethe, Grillparzer, Sainte-Beuve, Lowell. Port Wahsington, NY: Kennikat P, 1965 (1914). PN92 .P6

Scudder, Horace E. James Russell Lowell: a biography. 2 vols. NY: Houghton, Mifflin, 1901. PS2331 S4

Wagenknecht, Edward. James Russell Lowell; portrait of a many-sided man. NY: Oxford UP, 1971. PS2331 .W3

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Anderson, John Q. "Lowell's 'The Washers of the Shroud' and the Celtic Legend of the Washer of the Ford." American Literature 35 (1963): 361-363.

Attebery, Brian. "The Empty Cathedral: Lowell and Adams." Markham Review 9 (1980): 29-33.

Bell, Michael J. "'The Only True Folk Songs We Have in English': James Russell Lowell and the Politics of the Nation." Journal of American Folklore 108.428 (Sprg 1995): 131-55.

Brodie, Edward H., Jr. "Lowell's Biglow Papers: No. 1." Explicator 42.4 (1984): 21-23.

Cameron, Kenneth W. Lowell, Whittier, Very and the Alcotts among Their Contemporaries: A Harvest of Estimates, Insights and Anecdotes from the Victorian Literary World and an Index. Hartford: Transcendental Books, 1978.

Cary, Richard. "Lowell to Cabot." Colby Library Quarterly 6 (1963): 208-15.

Clements, Frances M. "Public and Private Reactions to Lowell's Fable for Critics." American Transcendental Quarterly 43 (Sumr 1979): 189-98.

Duberman, Martin B. "Twenty-Seven Poems by James Russell Lowell." American Literature 35 (1963): 322-51.

Hudson, Gertrude R. ed. Browning to His American Friends: Letters between the Brownings, the Storys and James Russell Lowell, 1841-90. NY: Barnes & Noble, 1965.

Kenney, Alice P. "Yankees in Camelot: The Democratization of Chivalry in James Russell Lowell, Mark Twain and Edwin Arlington Robinson." Studies in Medievalism 1.2 (Sprg 1982): 73-78.

MacDonnell, Kevin B. A Descriptive Catalogue of the James Russell Lowell Collection. Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1992. 

McWilliams, John. "James Russell Lowell on Cooper: Forgotten Tributes." James Fenimore Cooper Society Newsletter 9.3 (Nov 1998): 3-4.

Monteiro, George. "Howells on Lowell: An Unascribed Review." New England Quarterly 38 (1965): 508-09.

Mott, Wesley. "Thoreau and Lowell on 'Vacation': The Maine Woods and 'A Moosehead Journal'." Thoreau Journal Quarterly 10.3 (1978): 14-24.

Oggel, L. Terry. "Lowell's Humor and His Other Review of Thoreau." American Transcendental Quarterly 41 (1979): 45-60.

Rees, Robert A. "James Russell Lowell." Fifteen American Authors before 1900: Bibliographical Essays on Research and Criticism. Eds. Earl N. Harbert and Robert A. Rees. Madison : U of Wisconsin P, 1984. 379-401.

Tanselle, G. Thomas. "The Craftsmanship of Lowell: Revisions in The Cathedral." Bulletin of the New York Public Library 70 (1966): 50-63.

Tate, Thomas K. "James Russell Lowell's Nephews." New England Quarterly 64.1 (Mar 1991): 127-29.  

Tucker, Edward. "James Russell Lowell and Robert Carter: The Pioneer and Fifty Letters from Lowell to Carter." Studies in the American Renaissance (1987): 187-246.

Wortham, Thomas. "James Russell Lowell: Portrait of a Many-Sided Man." The Transcendentalists: A Review of Research and Criticism. Ed. Joel Myerson. NY: Mod. Lang. Assn. of America, 1984. 336-42.

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