Literary Pilgrimages in New England, to the Homes of Famous Makers of American Literature and Among Their Haunts and the Scenes of Their Writings (Classic Reprint)
Literary Pilgrimages in New England, to the Homes of Famous Makers of American Literature and Among Their Haunts and the Scenes of Their Writings (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Literary Pilgrimages in New England, to the Homes of Famous Makers of American Literature and Among Their Haunts and the Scenes of Their Writings Tire Last Leaf, ' also among his favorites and perhaps the most widely popular, was written at an earlier period. For this poem 'good Abraham Lincoln, ' the doctor took pride in noting, had a great liking, and relented it from memory. It took the fancy of the fastidious Edgar Allan Poe, who made an autograph copy of it i and it appeared in a French version. The ...
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Excerpt from Literary Pilgrimages in New England, to the Homes of Famous Makers of American Literature and Among Their Haunts and the Scenes of Their Writings Tire Last Leaf, ' also among his favorites and perhaps the most widely popular, was written at an earlier period. For this poem 'good Abraham Lincoln, ' the doctor took pride in noting, had a great liking, and relented it from memory. It took the fancy of the fastidious Edgar Allan Poe, who made an autograph copy of it i and it appeared in a French version. The famous Old Ironsidos, ' which countless schoolboys have dcelai med. Was produced when Holmes was a law student at Cambridge in 1830. It was cast at white heat upon reading of the threatened breaking-up of the Constitution by the Navy Department as useless, and was hurried to the Boston Adeen' tiser, where it appeared the following morning. Copied by newspapers throughout the country, it roused public senti ment, and saved the grand old ship. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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