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Lowell

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Low·ell  (ll)
A city of northeast Massachusetts on the Merrimack River northwest of Boston. Settled in 1653, it was once a major textile center and now has diversified industries. Population: 103,000.

Lowell, Abbott Lawrence 1856-1943.
American educator and president (1909-1933) of Harvard University. He wrote Essays on Government (1889) and Conflicts of Principle (1932).

Lowell, Amy 1874-1925.
American poet. A leader of the imagists, she wrote several volumes of poetry, including Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914).

Lowell, James Russell 1819-1891.
American editor, poet, and diplomat. He edited the Atlantic Monthly (1857-1861) and served as U.S. minister to Spain (1877-1880) and Great Britain (1880-1885).

Lowell, Percival 1855-1916.
American astronomer. He founded the Lowell Observatory in Arizona (1894), where his studies of Mars led him to believe that the planet was inhabited.

Lowell, Robert Traill Spence, Jr. 1917-1977.
American poet whose works include Life Studies (1959) and The Dolphin (1973), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize.

Lowell [ˈləʊəl]
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1. (Biographies / Lowell, Amy (Lawrence) (1874-1925) F, US, WRITING: poet, WRITING: critic) Amy (Lawrence). 1874-1925, US imagist poet and critic
2. (Biographies / Lowell, James Russell (1819-1891) M, US, WRITING: poet, WRITING: essayist, POLITICS: diplomat) James Russell. 1819-91, US poet, essayist, and diplomat, noted for his series of poems in Yankee dialect, Biglow Papers (1848; 1867)
3. (Biographies / Lowell, Robert (Traill Spence) (1917-1977) M, US, WRITING: poet) Robert (Traill Spence). 1917-77, US poet. His volumes of verse include Lord Weary's Castle (1946), Life Studies (1959), For the Union Dead (1964), and a book of free translations of European poems, Imitations (1961)
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Noun1.Lowell - United States poet (1917-1977)
2.LowellLowell - United States astronomer whose studies of Mars led him to conclude that Mars was inhabited (1855-1916)
3.LowellLowell - United States poet (1874-1925)      
4.LowellLowell - United States educator and president of Harvard University (1856-1943)


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I was met at the station at Lowell by a gentleman intimately connected with the management of the factories there; and gladly putting myself under his guidance, drove off at once to that quarter of the town in which the works, the object of my visit, were situated.
For appreciative criticism of some of the great poets the essays of Lowell and of Matthew Arnold are among the best.
THIS stanza from "The Raven" was recommended by James Russell Lowell as an inscription upon the Baltimore monument which marks the resting place of Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in American letters.
 
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