Democracy and Other Addresses (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
| Author: | James Russell Lowell | ISBN: | 9781411460485 |
| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble | Publication: | November 8, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Barnes & Noble | Language: | English |
| Author: | James Russell Lowell |
| ISBN: | 9781411460485 |
| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble |
| Publication: | November 8, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Barnes & Noble |
| Language: | English |
This 1886 collection of public addresses by Lowell features nine speeches, including “Democracy,” a lecture given at Lowell’s assumption of the Presidency of the Birmingham and Midland Institute; “Books and Libraries,” given at the opening of the Free Public Library in Chelsea, Massachusetts; “Coleridge;” “Wordsworth;” and “Don Quixote;” among others. According to a contemporary review in the Nation, “in this volume there is the authentic impress of the classical spirit—age seasons every page, and yet every page is young.”
This 1886 collection of public addresses by Lowell features nine speeches, including “Democracy,” a lecture given at Lowell’s assumption of the Presidency of the Birmingham and Midland Institute; “Books and Libraries,” given at the opening of the Free Public Library in Chelsea, Massachusetts; “Coleridge;” “Wordsworth;” and “Don Quixote;” among others. According to a contemporary review in the Nation, “in this volume there is the authentic impress of the classical spirit—age seasons every page, and yet every page is young.”
