can you name some of his works?
His interest were the literary world. He wrote poems or a prose article, He wrote a series on "Anti-Slavery in the United States" for the "Daily News", published "The Biglow Papers", later named by the Grolier Club as the most influential book of 1848.
James Russell Lowell
Lowell's earliest poems were published without remuneration in the "Southern Literary Messenger" in 1840. He was inspired to new efforts towards self-support and joined with his friend Robert Carter in founding the literary journal "The Pioneer". The periodical was distinguished by the fact that most of its content was new rather than material that had been previously published elsewhere, and by the inclusion of very serious criticism, which covered not only literature but also art and music. Lowell wrote that it would "furnish the intelligent and reflecting portion of the Reading Public with a rational substitute for the enormous quantity of thrice-diluted trash, in the shape of namby-pamby love tales and sketches, which is monthly poured out to them by many of our popular Magazines." William Wetmore Story noted the journal's higher taste, writing that "it took some stand & appealled to a higher intellectual Standard than our puerile milk or watery namby-pamby Mags with which we are o
writer of the inventor who kept his promise James Russell Lowel. who is he? He was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. where was he born? Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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James Russell Lowell [SEP] Literary career
Lowell's earliest poems were published without remuneration in the "Southern Literary Messenger" in 1840. He was inspired to new efforts towards self-support and joined with his friend Robert Carter in founding the literary journal "The Pioneer". The periodical was distinguished by the fact that most of its content was new rather than material that had been previously published elsewhere, and by the inclusion of very serious criticism, which covered not only literature but also art and music. Lowell wrote that it would "furnish the intelligent and reflecting portion of the Reading Public with a rational substitute for the enormous quantity of thrice-diluted trash, in the shape of namby-pamby love tales and sketches, which is monthly poured out to them by many of our popular Magazines." William Wetmore Story noted the journal's higher taste, writing that "it took some stand & appealled to a higher intellectual Standard than our puerile milk or watery namby-pamby Mags with which we are overrun".