_Pioneer, The_, projected by J. R. L. and R. Carter, i. 99; prospectus of, 99, 100; its purpose, 101; introduction to, 103-105; its contributors, 105; its contents, 105; carried on in absence of J. R. L., 106; suspended, 107; how it looked in New York, 109; J. R. L.’s concern for, 110-113; J. R. L.’s formal bow in, ii. 390. Pipe, the, as a weather-sign, ii. 358. “Pirate, The,” i. 11. _Place of the Independent in Politics, The_; see _Independent in Politics_. _Plays of Thomas Middleton, The_, extract from, on poets, i. 149. _Pocket Celebration of the Fourth, The_, ii. 14, note. Poe, Edgar Allan, contributor to _The Pioneer_, i. 105; rate of payment to, by _Broadway Journal_, 158; sketched by J. R. L. in _Graham’s Magazine_, 162; his criticism of J. R. L., 163; his allusions to Longfellow’s family, 164; J. R. L.’s judgment of, 165-167; the correspondence with J. R. L., 165, note; his relation with J. R. L. discussed by Briggs, Willis, and Page, 382. _Poems_, J. R. L. preparing the volume of, i. 239. _Poems_, second series by J. R. L. issued, i. 277; analyzed, 277-280. Poetry, J. R. L.’s enquiry into, in _Conversations_, i. 137; his lectures on, at Lowell Institute, 373-375. “Poet’s Yorkshire Haunts, A,” quoted, ii. 356. _Political Essays_, articles not included by J. R. L. in his, ii. 5; published, 372. Pontine marshes, the, i. 344. Pope, the, J. R. L. sees, i. 324; hears him celebrate mass, 325; likens him to an American statesman, 326. Pope, Alexander, criticised by J. R. L., i. 290; treated at length in lectures on poetry, 374. Portsmouth, early visited by J. R. L., i. 19, 20. Postmaster at Stockbridge, account of, by J. R. L., i. 272. _Power of Sound, The_, quoted, i. 20. Prescott, Harriet Elizabeth, J. R. L. meets at dinner, i. 449. Prescott, William Hickling, his “Conquest of Mexico,” i. 274; importance of, to the _Atlantic_, 420. Presepio on Christmas eve in Rome, i. 324, 325. _President on the Stump, The_, ii. 93. “President’s Message, The,” by Parke Godwin, ii. 3. Proctor, Mrs. Bryan Waller, ii. 335. Professorship at Oxford proposed for J. R. L., ii. 318. _Prometheus_, i. 115; at work on, 119; its character, 121; compared with Keats’s “Hyperion,” 122; Briggs and J. R. L. on, 123. Proof-reading, J. R. L. on, i. 444. Provincial Newspaper Society, J. R. L. before, ii. 306. _Punch_ on J. R. L. as an alien, ii. 300. Puritanism in New England, ii. 82. Putnam, George, J. R. L. to, ii. 182, 296. Putnam, George Palmer, to publish _A Fable for Critics_, i. 242; does not notice the rhymed title-page, 249, note; his character as a publisher, 349. Putnam, Mrs. S. R., _see_ Lowell, Mary Traill Spence. Putnam, William Lowell, killed at Ball’s Bluff, ii. 30. _Putnam’s Monthly_, established, i. 348; prospectus of, 349; its decline, 350. Puttenham’s “Art of English Poesie,” i. 67. _Question of the Hour, The_, ii. 20.