its musical accompaniment as by any sense of symmetry. I wrote some
stanzas of the _Commemoration Ode_ on this theory at first, leaving
some verses without a rhyme to match. But my ear was better pleased
when the rhyme, coming at a longer interval, as a far-off echo rather
than instant reverberation, produced the same effect almost, and yet
was gratified by unexpectedly recalling an association and faint
reminiscence of consonance."




BIBLIOGRAPHY


Horace E. Scudder: _James Russell Lowell: A Biography_. 2 vols. The
standard biography.

Ferris Greenslet: _James Russell Lowell: His Life and Work_. The
latest biography (1905) and very satisfactory.

Francis H. Underwood: _James Russell Lowell: A Biographical Sketch and
Lowell the Poet and the Man_. Interesting recollections of a personal
friend and editorial associate.

Edward Everett Hale: _Lowell and His Friends_.

Edward Everett Hale, Jr.: _James Russell Lowell_. (Beacon
Biographies.)

Charles Eliot Norton: _Letters of James Russell Lowell_. 2 vols.