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James Russell Lowell

American “Fireside” Poet

James Russell Lowell

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• • 1st Generation
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  • Father:
  • Charles Lowell 
  • Mother:
  • Harriet Brackett Spence   
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  • 1819 
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  • Death Date:
  • 1891 
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  • American “Fireside” Poet

    James Russell Lowell is often listed among the Fireside Poets. The group consisted of the first American poets whose popularity rivaled that of British poets. It is often said to include John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and James Russell Lowell.

• Sources for James Russell Lowell

  • ¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, Notable Kin, Volume 1, Santa Clarita, California: Carl Boyer, 3rd (1998), 183.