The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner And The Vision Of Sir Launfal Classic Reprint

Author : James Russell Lowell
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ISBN 13 : 9781332605873
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The Vision of Sir Launfal, and Other Poems written by James Russell Lowell and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Vision of Sir Launfal, and Other Poems: With a Biographical Sketch, Notes, Portraits and Other Illustration; And With Aids to the Study of the Vision of Sir Launfal Lowell's acquaintance with books and his schooling began early. He learned his letters at a dame school. Mr. Wil liam wells, an Englishman, opened a classical school in one of the spacious Tory Row houses near Elmwood, and, bring ing with him English public school thoroughness and se verity, gave the boy a drilling in Latin, which he must have made almost a native speech, to judge by the ease with which he handled it afterward in mock heroics. Of course he went to Harvard College. He lived at his father's house, more than a mile away from the college yard; but this could have been no great privation to him, for he had the freedom of his friends' rooms, and he loved the open air. Lowell was but fifteen years old when he entered college in the class which graduated in 1838. He was a reader, as so many of his fellows were, and the letters which he wrote shortly after leaving college show how intent he had been on making acquaintance with the best things in literature. He began also to scribble verse, and he wrote both poems and essays for college magazines. His class chose him their poet for Class Day, and he wrote his poem; but he was careless about conforming to college regulations respecting attendance at morning prayers, and for this was suspended from college the last term of his last year, and not allowed to come back to read his poem. He was sent to Concord for his rustication, and so passed a few weeks of his youth amongst scenes dear to every lover of American letters. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.