Democracy and Other Addresses (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

This 1886 collection of public addresses by Lowell features nine speeches, including Democracy, a lecture given at Lowells assumption of the Presidency of the Birmingham and Midland Institute; Books and Libraries, given at the opening of the Free Public Library in Chelsea, Massachusetts; Coleridge; Wordsworth; and Don Quixote; among others. According to a contemporary review in the Nation, in this volume there is the authentic impress of the classical spiritage seasons every page, and yet every page is young.