The most popular of Lowell's books on the Orient, The Soul of the Far East, ( 1888 ) contains an early synthesis of some of his ideas, that in essence, postulated that human progress is a function of the qualities of individuality and imagination.

* Lowell National Historical Park: Maintains Lowell's history as an early manufacturing and immigrant city.

Lowell's mother built in him an appreciation for literature at an early age, especially in poetry, ballads, and tales from her native Orkney.

Lowell's poem " The Present Crisis ," an early work that addressed the national crisis over slavery leading up to the Civil War, has had an impact in the modern civil rights movement.

Lowell's early poetry was particularly influenced by Tate's formalist brand of Modernism.

Richard Eberhart was an early mentor of Lowell, despite Lowell having never taken a class with him ; their relationship continued during Lowell's time at Harvard University.

Lowell's earliest poems were published without pay in the Southern Literary Messenger in 1840.

Lowell's reviews for the journal covered a wide variety of literary releases of the day, though he was writing fewer poems.

One of Lowell's poems, " The Sick Room ," has been described as " Dickinsonian ".

Robert Lowell's poems about his experience in a mental hospital, for example, interested me very much.

Bishop's influence over Lowell can be seen at work in at least two of Lowell's poems: " The Scream " ( inspired by Bishop's short story " In the Village ") and " Skunk Hour " ( inspired by Bishop's poem " The Armadillo ").

Lowell's first book of poems, Land of Unlikeness ( 1944 ), did not receive much attention.

Because many of the poems documented details from Lowell's family life and personal problems, one critic, M. L.

" For the Union Dead was Lowell's first book since Life Studies to contain all original verse ( since it did not include any translations ), and in writing the poems in this volume, Lowell built upon the looser, more personal style of writing that he'd established in the final section of Life Studies.

However, none of the poems in For the Union Dead explicitly addressed the taboo subject of Lowell's mental illness ( like some of the poems in Life Studies did ) and were, therefore, not notably " confessional.

Lowell referred to these fourteen-line poems as sonnets although they sometimes failed to incorporate regular meter and never incorporated rhyme ( both of which are defining features of the sonnet form ); however, some of Lowell's sonnets ( particularly the ones in Notebook 1967-1968 ) were written in blank verse with a definitive pentameter.

Lowell's hope in tracking down Planet X was to establish his scientific credibility, which had eluded him thanks to his widely derided belief that channel-like features visible on the surface of Mars were canals constructed by an intelligent civilisation.

Unlike many other mill towns, however, Lowell's manufacturing facitilities were built based on a planned community design.

The textile industry in New England experienced a sharp decline after World War II and by the 1960s, many of the Lowell's textile mill buildings were abandoned.

" Like Lowell, she wrote poetry, and the next twelve years of Lowell's life were deeply affected by her influence.

" Lowell's satires and use of dialect were an inspiration for writers like Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, H. L. Mencken, and Ring Lardner.

Lowell's uncompromising statement in support of academic freedom was a landmark event at a time when other universities were demanding compliant behavior from their faculty.

Harvard Dean Henry Aaron Yeomans, later Lowell's biographer, frankly admitted that he and Lowell as administrators found a way to accommodate themselves to the Overseer's stated principle: " The matter was settled in theory, and in practice no serious difficulties were encountered.

After Time Loves A Hero and before the Down on the Farm sessions, Little Feat were used as the backing band for Robert Palmer's album Pressure Drop, which featured his cover version of Lowell's song " Trouble.

The resulting photographs were so sharp, that they were able to disprove Percival Lowell's claim of geometrical canals on the planet's surface.

The other two stadiums were Lowell's LeLacheur Park ( home of the Red Sox's Single-A affiliate Lowell Spinners ) and Portland, Maine's Hadlock Field ( home of Double-A affiliate Portland Sea Dogs ).

Lowell's logo when they were named the Lock Monsters

In 2009, the boxing scenes of the 2010 film The Fighter were shot here with Mark Wahlberg portraying Micky Ward, Lowell's own boxer who won a world championship, and Christian Bale portraying his brother Dicky Eklund.

Ultimately, 25 of the original were sold to supplement Lowell's income.

For, in accordance with Mr. Lowell's concept of an advisory board, our selections are made by experienced selectors who give both constancy and consistency to our processes and our choices.

In 1848 James B. Francis, while working as head engineer of Lowell's Locks and Canals company, improved on these designs to create a turbine with 90 % efficiency.

The search began in the mid-19th century and culminated at the start of the 20th with Percival Lowell's quest for Planet X. Lowell proposed the Planet X hypothesis to explain apparent discrepancies in the orbits of the gas giants, particularly Uranus and Neptune, speculating that the gravity of a large unseen ninth planet could have perturbed Uranus enough to account for the irregularities.

He was replaced with Matt Odmark, Lowell's childhood friend and fellow McQuaid Jesuit High School alum.

In 2008, the violent crime Rate for Lowell was 1, 126. 3 per 100, 000 of the population, ranking it the 7th most violent city in Massachusetts right ahead of Boston with 1, 104 per 100, 000 .. Lowell's crime rate has dropped tremendously since the 1990's

To finance it, he sold off more of Elmwood's acres and rented the house to Thomas Bailey Aldrich ; Lowell's daughter Mabel, by this time, had moved into a new home with her husband Edward Burnett, the son of a successful businessman-farmer from Southboro, Massachusetts.

In a 1962 interview with Peter Orr, Sylvia Plath specifically cited Lowell's book Life Studies as having had a profound influence over the poetry she was writing at that time ( and which her husband would publish posthumously as Ariel a few years later ), stating, " I've been very excited by what I feel is the new breakthrough that came with, say, Robert Lowell's Life Studies, this intense breakthrough into very serious, very personal, emotional experience which I feel has been partly taboo.

Lowell had a close friendship with the poet Elizabeth Bishop that lasted from 1947 until Lowell's death in 1977.

" Lowell's editor and friend Frank Bidart notes in his afterword to Lowell's Collected Poems, " Lowell is widely, perhaps indelibly associated with the term ' confessional ,'" though Bidart questions the accuracy of this label.

But for better or worse, this label stuck and led to Lowell being grouped together with other influential confessional poets like Lowell's former students W. D. Snodgrass, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton.

However, critical response to Imitations was mixed and sometimes hostile ( as was the case with Vladimir Nabokov's public response to Lowell's Mandelstam translations ).

A critical examination of Professor Percival Lowell's book " Mars and its canals ", with an alternative explanation, by Alfred Russel Wallace, F. R. S., etc.

After the Red Sox acquired Victor Martinez in a midseason trade with the Cleveland Indians, Lowell's playing time was reduced, casting his future with the team into doubt.

On May 30, 2005, Lydon returned to the air on University of Massachusetts Lowell's radio station WUML and Boston's WGBH with a new show called Open Source, syndicated through Public Radio International.

After Lowell's death in 1817, his partners searched for a new location with greater waterpower to expand textile production and add calico printing.

The quantity of freight traffic on the Boston and Lowell Railroad was large from the first, as it was expected to be, with Lowell's textile companies bringing in raw materials and sending out finished goods.

* Editor, with David Gewanter, of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems ( 2003 )