A trip to Chartres inspired his The Cathedral, while Democracy and other Addresses and Among My Books discuss his time as Ambassador to Spain and England.
Individual works like "The Unhappy Lot of Mr. Knott" broke away from the imitations of Wordsworth and Keats that dominate collections like Heartsease and Rue and Under the Willows. A trip to Chartres inspired his The Cathedral, while Democracy and other Addresses and Among My Books discuss his time as Ambassador to Spain and England. But it was his work about a sarcastic reviewer who visits Olympus to dispense opinions about literary contemporaries that brought him fame during his lifetime. That work along with "The Commemoration Ode" and The Vision of Sir Launfal made this New England writer's name. FTP identify this author of A Fable for Critics and The Biglow Papers.
Individual works like "The Unhappy Lot of Mr. Knott" broke away from the imitations of Wordsworth and Keats that dominate collections like Heartsease and Rue and Under the Willows.
James Russell Lowell