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Title: The Vision of Sir Launfal
And Other Poems

Author: James Russell Lowell

Release Date: November 20, 2005 [EBook #17119]

Language: English

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[Illustration: James Russell Lowell.]

The Riverside Literature Series

THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL

AND OTHER POEMS

BY

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

_WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
AND NOTES
A PORTRAIT AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS_

[Illustration: THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL]

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
Boston: 4 Park Street; New York: 11 East Seventeenth Street
Chicago: 378-388 Wabash Avenue
The Riverside Press, Cambridge

Copyright, 1848, 1857, 1866, 1868, 1869, 1876, and 1885,
By JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

Copyright, 1887, 1894, and 1896,
By HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO.

CONTENTS

A SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

I. ELMWOOD

II. EDUCATION

III. FIRST VENTURES

IV. VERSE AND PROSE

V. PUBLIC LIFE

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL

PRELUDE TO PART FIRST

PART FIRST

PRELUDE TO PART SECOND

PART SECOND

ODE RECITED AT THE HARVARD COMMEMORATION

ON BOARD THE '76

AN INDIAN-SUMMER REVERIE

THE FIRST SNOW-FALL

THE OAK

PROMETHEUS

TO W.L. GARRISON

WENDELL PHILLIPS

MR. HOSEA BIGLOW TO THE EDITOR OF THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY

VILLA FRANCA

THE NIGHTINGALE IN THE STUDY

ALADDIN

BEAVER BROOK

THE SHEPHERD OF KING ADMETUS

THE PRESENT CRISIS

AL FRESCO

THE FOOT-PATH

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL(from a crayon by Willi