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This page really needs to be wikified. Added notice. -- KneeLess 04:54, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
needs sections Bluemoose 09:06, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Lowell features as one of the principal characters in The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. I'd like to suggest a link to biographies of Lowell, his uncle Robert Traill Spence and grandfather Keith Spence at http://www.buyorkney.com/roots/biographies/james_russell_lowell/. Merrydancer 10:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Make Wikipedia articles consistent. Add in the top sidebar for this subject the standard summary of his political appointments.
Propagate this fix across all articles on persons in Wikipedia.
Jimlue ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:47, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:James Russell Lowell - 1855.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on December 22, 2019. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2019-12-22. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 10:32, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
This photograph of Carreño, taken sometime between 1915 and 1917, shows her at the piano; it is part of the George Grantham Bain Collection, held at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.Photograph credit: unknown; restored by Adam Cuerden
Revised Lives : Whitman, Religion, and Constructions of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Culture by William Pannapacker says "Lowell was proclaimed by many critics to have written the greatest poetic summation of the Civil War and tribute to Lincoln in his “Commemoration Ode" " (p. 93). Is this the same one he presented at Harvard? Is it independently notable? Does it merit more of a mention here? Eddie891 Talk Work 23:57, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
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Sorry to come at this from a linguistic point of view, but Lowell's writing isn't "ungrammatical"; it's nonstandard. Yes, I understand that his writing is boldly, proudly, and flagrantly representing a non-standard dialect, but that's not the same as being ungrammatical, which means something like "not conforming to grammatical rules." It is conforming to grammatical rules: those of a 19th-century Yankee dialect. Wolfdog ( talk) 22:47, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
But Lowell's nature, as he said, was "naturally joyous." He knew he must really, and he did, building anew on the literary reputation already firmy established by 1848, certainly his most productive year. In 1848 alone, a year of revolution throughout Europe, appeared Lowell's two most important works, The Biglow Papers and A Fable for Critics.
Phrased in the caustic, disarmingly ungrammatical Yankee dialect of one Hosea Biglow, the archetype of his no-nonsense rustic kin, The Biglow Papers, First Series, for all its humor, is a damning assault on the evils and pretensions of mid-nineteenth century America...
The Biglow Papers, as one biographer describes, are "phrased in the caustic, disarmingly ungrammatical Yankee dialect" of the early 19th century.) Wolfdog ( talk) 16:21, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
An editor has suggested a new organizational structure for this article (see version here), which creates a new section on "Personal life" rather than spattering those details chronologically throughout the biography. I'm posting here for some opinions from other editors and would love to hear more. -- Midnightdreary ( talk) 01:47, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
James Russell Lowell is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so. | |||||||||||||
This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on February 22, 2017. | |||||||||||||
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A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the " On this day..." column on February 22, 2024. | |||||||||||||
Current status: Featured article |
This
level-5 vital article is rated FA-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This page really needs to be wikified. Added notice. -- KneeLess 04:54, 2 Feb 2005 (UTC)
needs sections Bluemoose 09:06, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Lowell features as one of the principal characters in The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl. I'd like to suggest a link to biographies of Lowell, his uncle Robert Traill Spence and grandfather Keith Spence at http://www.buyorkney.com/roots/biographies/james_russell_lowell/. Merrydancer 10:11, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
Make Wikipedia articles consistent. Add in the top sidebar for this subject the standard summary of his political appointments.
Propagate this fix across all articles on persons in Wikipedia.
Jimlue ( talk) —Preceding undated comment added 21:47, 2 December 2018 (UTC)
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:James Russell Lowell - 1855.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on December 22, 2019. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2019-12-22. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! Cwmhiraeth ( talk) 10:32, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
This photograph of Carreño, taken sometime between 1915 and 1917, shows her at the piano; it is part of the George Grantham Bain Collection, held at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.Photograph credit: unknown; restored by Adam Cuerden
Revised Lives : Whitman, Religion, and Constructions of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Culture by William Pannapacker says "Lowell was proclaimed by many critics to have written the greatest poetic summation of the Civil War and tribute to Lincoln in his “Commemoration Ode" " (p. 93). Is this the same one he presented at Harvard? Is it independently notable? Does it merit more of a mention here? Eddie891 Talk Work 23:57, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
References
Sorry to come at this from a linguistic point of view, but Lowell's writing isn't "ungrammatical"; it's nonstandard. Yes, I understand that his writing is boldly, proudly, and flagrantly representing a non-standard dialect, but that's not the same as being ungrammatical, which means something like "not conforming to grammatical rules." It is conforming to grammatical rules: those of a 19th-century Yankee dialect. Wolfdog ( talk) 22:47, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
But Lowell's nature, as he said, was "naturally joyous." He knew he must really, and he did, building anew on the literary reputation already firmy established by 1848, certainly his most productive year. In 1848 alone, a year of revolution throughout Europe, appeared Lowell's two most important works, The Biglow Papers and A Fable for Critics.
Phrased in the caustic, disarmingly ungrammatical Yankee dialect of one Hosea Biglow, the archetype of his no-nonsense rustic kin, The Biglow Papers, First Series, for all its humor, is a damning assault on the evils and pretensions of mid-nineteenth century America...
The Biglow Papers, as one biographer describes, are "phrased in the caustic, disarmingly ungrammatical Yankee dialect" of the early 19th century.) Wolfdog ( talk) 16:21, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
An editor has suggested a new organizational structure for this article (see version here), which creates a new section on "Personal life" rather than spattering those details chronologically throughout the biography. I'm posting here for some opinions from other editors and would love to hear more. -- Midnightdreary ( talk) 01:47, 8 March 2024 (UTC)