James Russell Lowell - Watertown, MA
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The grave of American poet James Russell Lowell and his wife Maria White Lowell, also a poet, is located along Fountain Avenue in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
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Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 06/18/2017
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The grave of James Russell Lowell is marked by a dark gray headstone with a bas relief sculpture of a winged skull in the lunette and a worn, shallow inscription that is difficult to read without close examination.
The headstone is inscribed:
Sacred to the memory
of
James Russell Lowell
born in 1819 died 1891
and his wife
Maria White
born 1821 died 1853
James Russell Lowell was born on February 22, 1819 in Cambridge, MA. He entered Harvard College in 1834 at 15 years of age. He met his future wife Maria White in 1839. They married on December 26, 1844.
James Russell Lowell wrote Romantic poetry. He was a member of a group of American poets, along with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., known as the Fireside Poets whose acclaim and popularity rivaled the best British poets.
Wikipedia lists the following selective works of James Russell Lowell.
Poetry collections:
A Year's Life (1841)
Miscellaneous Poems (1843)
The Biglow Papers (1848)
A Fable for Critics (1848)
Poems (1848)
The Vision of Sir Launfal (1848)
Under the Willows (1869)
The Cathedral (1870)
Heartsease and Rue (1888)
Essay collections:
Conversations on the Old Poets (1844)
Fireside Travels (1864)
Among My Books (1870)
My Study Windows (1871)
Among My Books (second collection, 1876)
Democracy and Other Addresses (1886)
Political Essays (1888)