_Graham's Magazine_, February, 1845;
R.W. Griswold's edition of Poe's Works (1850)

THACKERAY: ROUNDABOUT PAPERS
_North American Review_, April, 1864


TWO GREAT AUTHORS

SWIFT: FORSTER'S LIFE OF SWIFT
_The Nation_, April 13 and 20, 1876

PLUTARCH'S MORALS
_North American Review_, April, 1871


A PLEA FOR FREEDOM FROM SPEECH AND FIGURES OF SPEECH-MAKERS
_Atlantic Monthly_, December, 1860




ON POETRY AND BELLES-LETTRES

THE FUNCTION OF THE POET


This was the concluding lecture in the course which Lowell read before
the Lowell Institute in the winter of 1855. Doubtless Lowell never
printed it because, as his genius matured, he felt that its assertions