This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ... sealed his enlistment in 1833: --"Champion of those who groan beneath Oppression's iron hand I" James T. Fields and Bayard Taylor are lovingly James described in " Tent on the Beach "; Taylor, Charles J?TM8 Sumner, and Emerson, in "Last Walk in Autumn." 181&-1881. Whittier and Dr. Holmes exchanged many tender gTM ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ... sealed his enlistment in 1833: --"Champion of those who groan beneath Oppression's iron hand I" James T. Fields and Bayard Taylor are lovingly James described in " Tent on the Beach "; Taylor, Charles J?TM8 Sumner, and Emerson, in "Last Walk in Autumn." 181&-1881. Whittier and Dr. Holmes exchanged many tender gTM greetings in advanced age. The most direct forms Taylor, of address were sometimes used, as in the case of char)es Fremont, to men whom the poet had never met. Sumner, In general, personal feeling, sympathy or antipathy, is very strong and vital with him. Perhaps his closest friendships were with women. His frankest utterance of feeling as to death is Lydia Maria addressed to Mrs. Child. Some merry doggerel (F"nclB) sent to Lucy Larcom, the cheery and gifted gradu-lsoa-isso. ate of a Lowell factory, will reveal a very human ucy J J Larcom, side of his nature. "How Mary Grew " is a punning 1824-1893. love-poem to the last survivor of the old Abolitionist circle in Philadelphia. An utterance of closer affection will be found in the poem called "Memories," and was perhaps repeated thirty years later in "A Sea Dream." The key to its meaning is fully given, for the first time, in the "Century " for May, 1902. Most of Whittier's long, unwedded life was sweetened by the full sympathy of three noble women, his mother, Aunt Mercy, and sister Elizabeth. The sister shared the lyric gift, and her poems are included in the collections of her brother's works. Whittier, secondly, is a lover of nature. His loyal admirers will hardly accept the modest disclaimer in his beautiful " Proem," wherein he says: --"Unskilled the subtle lines to trace, Or softer shades, of Nature's...
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