The poems of James Russell Lowell are very structured and are of general topics, like love and freedom, which were especially apparent in the Enlightenment Era. Indeed, this is when his poems were written, except they were published in America instead of in Britain. As Enlightenment ideas quickly spread from the first-world country of Britain to the developing industrial nation of the United States, writers and poets like James Russell Lowell took advantage of the public's growing approval of topics rooting in literary Romanticism.
James Russell Lowell was an American writer and poet, as well as an American diplomat. His poetry commonly entered the realm of the "Fireside Poets", who were dedicated to writing family friendly Enlightenment poetry to further spread to "revolution". In 1848, Lowell became a bit infamous for his poetic publication of A Fable for Critics, which insulted other poets. Some of his other famous poetry collections include The Biglow Papers and Under the Williows. Lowell graduated from Harvard College in the mid-1800's, which, at the time, was not as hard of a school to get into. Still, he went on to become a prosperous poet, and is often noted for his systematic use of meters in his poetry.
