Lowell’s second collection looks out of the window and into the bookcase. It opens with the birds and creatures of his Cambridge garden and a good word for New England winter, moves to his celebrated essay on the condescension of foreigners towards Americans, and then offers long critical studies of Carlyle, Abraham Lincoln, Thoreau, Swinburne’s tragedies, Chaucer, Pope and Emerson as a lecturer.
Urbane nineteenth-century American criticism at its best, mixing nature writing, politics and literary portraiture. Download the free EPUB.