Published in 1905, this biography of Lowell relies mainly on his correspondence, giving the book a lively, quasi-autobiographical result.  A contemporary review in the New York Times pronounced the work "conspicuously free from provincialism of standards and of feeling, conspicuously competent, dispassionate, and therefore authoritative."

Published in 1905, this biography of Lowell relies mainly on his correspondence, giving the book a lively, quasi-autobiographical result.  A contemporary review in the New York Times pronounced the work "conspicuously free from provincialism of standards and of feeling, conspicuously competent, dispassionate, and therefore authoritative."