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James Russell Lowell and His Friends (American Men and Women of Letters)
James Russell Lowell and His Friends - American Men and Women of Letters Author:Edward Everett Hale, Lewis P. Simpson Reformer and moralist, editor, critic, and scholar, public emissary to Europe in his later years, and not least throughout his career a kind of bardic poet, Lowell was the exemplary man of letters as this role was conceived by his place and time ... he was the instructive conscience of a literary community that regarded itself as the embodiment ... more »of the values of the new American Republic and was a fundamental power in shaping its course in history.« less