The third weekend in August is the celebration of Percival Lowell's contribution to astronomy and his time spent in the Noto peninsula.

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.

The name of the band came from a comment made by Mothers ' drummer Jimmy Carl Black about Lowell's " little feet.

John Lowell's ancestor, Percival, a merchant, came from Bristol, England, to Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1639, and his father, John, was the first minister of Newburyport, where he officiated 1726-67.

The trust – or Lowell Institute, as it came to be known – had an unusual mode of governance: a single trustee who was empowered to appoint his successor and who was, in the language of Lowell's will, " always choose in preference to all others some male descendant of my grandfather, John Lowell, provided there be one who is competent to hold the office of trustee, and of the name of Lowell " ( Everett 1840 ).

There are many references to Lowell's drinking during his college years and part of his reputation in school was based on it.

Each ArtsFirst weekend, the first weekend in May, there is a courtyard performance of the 1812 Overture, during which those not part of the official orchestral ensemble are encouraged to assist on kazoos ; in lieu of cannon, hydrogen-filled balloons are ignited by the House chemistry tutor ; and until recently ( see below ) the performance would climax with the role originally scored by Tchaikovsky for authentic Russian zvon ( a set of bells similar to a carillon ), being played ( appropriately enough ) by Lowell's own authentic Russian zvon.

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.

In April 1892 he delivered at Baltimore his eleventh annual address as president of the National Civil Service Reform League, and in May he appeared for the last time in public, to repeat in New York an address on James Russell Lowell, which he had first delivered in Brooklyn on the 22nd of the preceding February, the anniversary of Lowell's birth.

Having Lowell write the introduction to the book was appropriate, since, in a BBC Interview, Plath cited Lowell's book Life Studies as having had a profound influence over the poetry she was writing in this last phase of her writing career.

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

Lowell's social life improved when the Spanish Academy elected him a corresponding member in late 1878, allowing him contribute to the preparation of a new dictionary.

" Although the article gave a general overview of modern American poetry ( mentioning Lowell's contemporaries like John Berryman and Elizabeth Bishop ), Lowell's life, career, and place in the American literary canon remained the article's focus.

Lowell's early poems were formal, ornate, and concerned with violence and theology ; a typical example is the close of " The Quaker Graveyard " -- " You could cut the brackish winds with a knife / Here in Nantucket and cast up the time / When the Lord God formed man from the sea's slime / And breathed into his face the breath of life, / And the blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill.

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

He was critical of Percival Lowell's theory of intelligent life on Mars.

Lowell's life was first immortalized in a 1907 biography by Edward Waldo Emerson, son of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and more recently in a 2005 biography by Carol Bundy, a distant relative.

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.

Constance Lowell, Percival Lowell's widow, subsequently embroiled the observatory in a long legal battle to secure its million-dollar portion of Lowell's legacy for herself, which meant that the search for Planet X could not resume for several years.

Additionally, the park includes the Patrick J Mogan Cultural Center, which focuses on the lives of Lowell's many generations of immigrants.

Other exhibits include a working streetcar line, canal boat tours exploring some of the city's gatehouses and locks, and the River Transformed / Suffolk Mill Turbine Exhibit, which shows how water power, namely the Francis Turbine, was once used to run Lowell's textile factories.

The best known poem in this volume is " Waking Early Sunday Morning ," which was written in eight-line tetrameter stanzas ( borrowed from Andrew Marvell's poem " Upon Appleton House ") and showed contemporary American politics overtly entering into Lowell's work.

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.

In 1900, Lowell succeeded his father as Trustee of the Lowell Institute, which Lowell's great-grandfather founded to subsidize public lectures and popular education programs.

Also among the new campus buildings of Lowell's tenure was the President's House ( later called Loeb House ) at 17 Quincy Street, which Lowell commissioned from his cousin Guy Lowell.

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 season turned out to be one of Lowell's best, in which he set career bests in hits, RBI, batting average, OPS, and played a key role in helping the Red Sox win their second World Series in four years.

However, Burroughs does not seem to have based his vision of Mars on precise reading of Lowell's theories, as there are a number of errors in his interpretation which suggest he may have got most of his information from reading newspaper articles and other popular accounts of Lowell's Mars.

It is through John Lowell's daughter-in-law, the wife of Francis Cabot, Hannah Jackson ( 1776 – 1815 ), who was a granddaughter of Edward and Dorthy ( Quincy ) Jackson, that descendants of both the Francis Cabot and John Amory families claim relation to the Holmeses of Boston, which include poet Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. and U. S. Supreme Court Justice and Civil War hero Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr ..

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.

Lowell's first search focused on the ecliptic, the plane encompassed by the zodiac where the other planets in the Solar System lie.

Lowell's sudden death in 1916 temporarily halted the search for Planet X.

That we had the wit and wisdom to adopt Mr. Lowell's concept and make it the base for our processes of selection is one reason why our selections have been, it may be said truly, pretty uniformly good.

In popular culture, and even among some astronomers, Planet X has become a stand-in term for any undiscovered planet in the outer Solar System, regardless of its relationship to Lowell's hypothesis.

In addition, the Observatory staff designs and builds custom instrumentation for use on Lowell's telescopes and elsewhere.

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

After Lowell's death in 1916, astronomers developed a consensus against the canal hypothesis, but the popular concept of Martian canals excavated by intelligent Martians remained in the public mind for the first half of the 20th century, and inspired a corpus of works of classic science fiction.

UMass Lowell's men's hockey program has produced numerous professional players for the National Hockey League.

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

A Fable for Critics, one of Lowell's most popular works, was published in 1848.

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

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

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

The editor of Lowell's Letters, Saskia Hamilton notes, " Lithium treatment relieved him from suffering the idea that he was morally and emotionally responsible for the fact that he relapsed.

It marked both a big turning point in Lowell's career, and a turning point for American poetry in general.

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.