Born in 1819, died in 1891; graduated from Harvard in 1838;
in 1855 became professor at Harvard; editor of _The Atlantic
Monthly_ in 1857-62, _The North American Review_ in 1863-72;
minister to Spain in 1877-80, and Great Britain in 1880-85;
published "A Year's Life" in 1841, "The Vision of Sir
Launfal" in 1845, "A Fable for Critics" in 1848, "The Biglow
Papers" in 1848, and a second series in 1867, "Under the
Willows" in 1868, "The Cathedral" in 1869; among his
best-known prose works, "Conversations on Some of the Old
Poets" published in 1845, "Fireside Travels" in 1864, "Among
My Books" in 1870 and 1876, "My Study Windows" in 1871; his
"Letters" edited by Charles Eliot Norton, published in 1893.
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