Lowell
[loh-uh l]
- 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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Contemporary Examples
He could recite reams of Frost, Dickinson, Whitman, and Lowell, and he did so while I stood there, amazed.
Lowell worried that he had whittled away his talent in the pursuit of “some ironic integrity.”
Lowell wrote to Oliver Wendell Holmes, “he should need no more introduction than a fine day.”
Reading Bishop and Lowell, a different recrimination pops up: will I ever have a friendship that comes close to this?
As in many mill towns in New England, the French-Canadians in Lowell stuck together in a tight-knit ethnic enclave.
You Don’t Know Jack: Kerouac Biographer Joyce Johnson and ‘The Voice Is All’Lauren Du Graf
September 16, 2012
Historical Examples
If mother will let me, I can go to Lowell and work in a factory.
Lowell died in 1817, at the early age of forty-two, but his work did not die with him.
The Age of InventionHolland Thompson
Lowell as a textile center has long been surpassed by other cities.
The Age of InventionHolland Thompson
This was effected by Lowell Mason, as an experiment, in 1838.
Annals of Music in AmericaHenry Charles Lahee
How little either of us realized that Lowell was marching to his death.
Personal Recollections of a CavalrymanJ. H. (James Harvey) Kidd
Lowell
- 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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