1. James Russell Lowell

2. Early Life Lowell’s family was of ____________ descent.
Lowell’s father was a ______________.
By the time he was born, his family owned a large estate in Cambridge Massachusetts.
He was the youngest if ____ children.
Lowell’s mother built in him an appreciation for literature. She read and taught him poetry, ballads, and tales from _________________.

3. Young Adulthood
At the age of 15, Lowell entered _______________________.
He was not a good student and he often got into trouble.
He was actually elected as poet of the class of 1838, but could not recite a poem the day before the graduation ceremony because he was ________________________.

4. Young Adulthood Cont.
He did graduate from Harvard and eventually graduated from Harvard Law School also.
He married his first wife, _______________, in 1844.
She persuaded Lowell to become active in the _________________________ movement.
Many of Lowell early works were _____________________ writings.

5. Adulthood
In 1840 Lowell founded a literary journal, _____________________________, which published new literature. The first issue of the journal included the first issue of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart.”
Lowell gained notoriety in 1848 when he published A Fable for Critics, a book length poem that satirized contemporary critics and poets, including ________________________________.
Also in 1848 he published ____________________a collection of poems and essays, which increased his fame.

6. Adulthood
James and Maria had four children, but only ____ survived past infancy.
The deaths of his children affected Lowell deeply and he contemplated ___________________.
In 1853, Maria died from ___________________. He was also was helping his father, who became deaf, and his sister, who suffered with mental illness. He was very depressed during this period.

7. Adulthood
He gave a series of lectures on poets that were enormously popular, and it led to him gaining a teaching position at Harvard.
In 1857, he married _________________, who was a friend of his first wife.
Also in 1857 he became the editor of ______________________________.

8. Later years
In 1877, Lowell was named the ____________________________________ by President Hayes.
In 1879, he was named ____________________________________.
Lowell’s second wife dies in 1885, while they were still in England.
Lowell returned to the United States in 1885, and lived occasionally with his only surviving child, ___________________, until his death in 1891.