{"product_id":"the-vision-of-sir-launfal-von-james-russell-lowell","title":"THE VISION OF SIR LAUNFAL","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn Cambridge there are two literary shrines to which visitors are \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003esure to find their way soon after passing the Harvard gates, \"Craigie \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHouse,\" the home of Longfellow and \"Elmwood,\" the home of \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLowell. Though their hallowed retirement has been profaned by the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eencroachments of the growing city, yet in their simple dignity these \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003efine old colonial mansions still bespeak the noble associations of the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003epast, and stand as memorials of the finest products of American \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eculture. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElmwood was built before the Revolution by Thomas Oliver, the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTory governor, who signed his abdication at the invitation of a \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecommittee of \"about four thousand people\" who surrounded his \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehouse at Cambridge. The property was confiscated by the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCommonwealth and used by the American army during the war. In \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1818 it was purchased by the Rev. Charles Lowell, pastor of the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWest Congregational Church in Boston, and after ninety years it is \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estill the family home. Here was born, February 22, 1819, James \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRussell Lowell, with surroundings most propitious for the nurturing \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof a poet-soul. Within the stately home there was a refined family \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elife; the father had profited by the unusual privilege of three years' \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003estudy abroad, and his library of some four thousand volumes was \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003enot limited to theology; the mother, whose maiden name was \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpence and who traced her Scotch ancestry back to the hero of the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eballad of Sir Patrick Spens, taught her children the good old \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eballads and the romantic stories in the Fairie Queen, and it was one \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eof the poet's earliest delights to recount the adventures of Spenser's \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eheroes and heroines to his playmates.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9791041986187\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAND OTHER POEMS\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9791041986187","offer_id":48221838115141,"sku":"9791041986187","price":12.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/253bb5b7-3281-4277-a2de-6a25e7ecddaf.jpg?v=1763793954","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-vision-of-sir-launfal-von-james-russell-lowell","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}