HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY by James Russell Lowell

This text isn't a poem; it's the copyright and publisher information page from a collected edition of works by James Russell Lowell, published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company. It includes office addresses, the press name, and copyright dates ranging from 1848 to 1896. There’s no verse, imagery, or poetic content to discuss.

There’s nothing poetic here. This reads like dry, legal boilerplate typical of publishers — the sort of page that many readers just skip over.

James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) was a key figure in 19th-century American poetry, criticism, and public thought. He co-founded *The Atlantic Monthly* and held positions as a Harvard professor and U.S. ambassador. Houghton, Mifflin and Company, which evolved from the earlier Ticknor and Fields, was a major publisher in New England, representing notable authors like Longfellow, Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau. The copyright page shown here is from a collected edition of Lowell's poems, likely the well-known "Riverside Edition" that compiled his work throughout his life. The dates from 1848 to 1896 reflect the publication timeline of individual volumes that were later brought together into this comprehensive collection. The posthumous copyrights (1887, 1894, 1896) managed by the publisher were typical for handling an author's literary estate prior to the development of modern copyright laws.