James Russell Lowell succeeded his neighbor Longfellow’s professorship at Harvard. Though Lowell was a very popular poet, particularly in his youth, he never quite reined in a preachy tendency that prevented more widespread fame. He was perhaps most influential as the first editor of The Atlantic Monthly and then the editor for the North American Review. Lowell was banished to Concord in his student years at Harvard for standing up in the middle of morning chapel to bow his thanks to his classmates for electing him class poet.

(Photograph by Oliver Wendell Holmes in 1864 at Lowell's estate, Elmwood)