ABSTRACT
James Russell Lowell (1819–91), a genuine Boston mandarin, succeeded Longfellow as Professor of Belles-lettres at Harvard in 1855, was editor of the ‘Atlantic Monthly’ (1857–61), and served his country abroad in the embassies at Madrid and London. His most popular publication was the facile and satiric ‘Biglow Papers’ (1848, 1867). The comment on Marlowe is part of the Lowell Institute Lectures, 1887.
