And what is so rare as a day in June?” asked the nineteenth-century New England poet James Russell Lowell in an 1848 ...

In a poetic tribute delivered on Lowell’s 70th birthday, his Atlantic co-founder Oliver Wendell Holmes celebrated the editor as a True knight of Freedom ... and shield! James, too, wrote ...

A health to him whose double wreath displays The critic’s ivy and the poet’s bays; Who stayed not till with undisputed claim The civic garland filled his meed of fame; True knight of Freedom ...

In 1870, poet and critic James Russell Lowell asked the following question in the North American Review: Will it do to say anything more about Chaucer? Can any one hope to say anything, not new, but ...