by
Edwin Percy Whipple
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
This volume of essays by the influential New England critic is introduced by John Greenleaf Whittier. The wide-ranging title essay was described by the Boston Gazette as “a mine of almost inexhaustible wealth.” Also included are “Daniel Webster as a Master of English Style,” “Emerson and Carlyle,” “Emerson as a Poet,” and “Character and Genius of Thomas Starr King.”