On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners E-book
Author: James Russell Lowell
Genre: Literature
Poet, editor, essayist, literary critic, and man of letters.
Born into a distinguished colonial Massachusetts family, Lowell was
class poet at Harvard where he later became professor of modern
languages. In 1844, published Poems and married Maria White, a
poet and abolitionist who influenced his ideas. Lowell was the
first editor of the Atlantic Monthly and edited the North American
Review. Later served as Minister to both Spain and England. Died
at Cambridge, Massachusetts where he was born.
On a Certain Condescension in Foreigners (1871)
Excerpted from My Study Windows, Lowell takes to task the
disdainful attitudes of the British establishment toward
Americans. It is a call for equal treatment and, among other
things, a work that praises American simplicity, manliness, absence
of sham, sincerity, and sensitivity to duty.
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