Lowell

[ loh-uh l ]

/ ˈloʊ əl /

noun

Ab·bott Lawrence

[ab-uh t] /ˈæb ət/,1856–1943, political scientist and educator: president of Harvard University 1909–33.

his sisterAmy,1874–1925, U.S. poet and critic.

James Russell,1819–91, U.S. poet, essayist, and diplomat.

Percival,1855–1916, U.S. astronomer and author (brother of Abbott Lawrence Lowell and Amy Lowell).

Robert,1917–77, U.S. poet.

a city in NE Massachusetts, on the Merrimack River.

a male given name: from a Germanic word meaning “little wolf.”

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He could recite reams of Frost, Dickinson, Whitman, and Lowell, and he did so while I stood there, amazed.
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Lowell worried that he had whittled away his talent in the pursuit of “some ironic integrity.”
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Lowell wrote to Oliver Wendell Holmes, “he should need no more introduction than a fine day.”
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Reading Bishop and Lowell, a different recrimination pops up: will I ever have a friendship that comes close to this?
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As in many mill towns in New England, the French-Canadians in Lowell stuck together in a tight-knit ethnic enclave.
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We can turn out academic Sewards by the dozen, and cultured humorists like Lowell and Holmes by the score.
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Wong had been doing some work on the fence, but had discreetly vanished when Lowell came in sight.
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Everyone here sympathises with Lowell on the death of his wife.
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Mr. Lowell: They certainly do have dangers; we will assume that people are injured there.
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British Dictionary definitions for lowell

Lowell

/ (ˈləʊəl) /

noun

Amy (Lawrence). 1874–1925, US imagist poet and critic

James Russell. 1819–91, US poet, essayist, and diplomat, noted for his series of poems in Yankee dialect, Biglow Papers (1848; 1867)

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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