The Present Crisis

The Courtin'

The Commemoration Ode


EXAMINATION QUESTIONS




INTRODUCTION

LIFE OF LOWELL


In Cambridge there are two literary shrines to which visitors are sure
to find their way soon after passing the Harvard gates, "Craigie
House," the home of Longfellow and "Elmwood," the home of Lowell.
Though their hallowed retirement has been profaned by the
encroachments of the growing city, yet in their simple dignity these
fine old colonial mansions still bespeak the noble associations of the
past, and stand as memorials of the finest products of American
culture.

Elmwood was built before the Revolution by Thomas Oliver, the Tory
governor, who signed his abdication at the invitation of a committee
of "about four thousand people" who surrounded his house at Cambridge.