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Excerpt from John G. Whittier, the Poet of Freedom While the manuscript of this volume was lying in the safe of the publishers, I made a little Whittier itinerary along the storied Essex coast, - a voyage through Whittier ballad-land, bringing before my eyes the very scenes of the poems in the study of the sources of which in the libraries I had made such delightful and exciting discoveries. After adventures manifold and pleasant I found myse...

Excerpt from Reminiscences of Walt Whitman: With Extracts From His Letters and Remarks on His Writings I had intended to add to this volume an extensive bibliography of Leaves of Grass that I have prepared, forming a curious anecdotal and literary history of the book and its "varying fortune, with flight, advance and retreat, victory deferr'd and wavering, " up to the point of Whitman's death and his work's triumphant success. It was the inte...

Excerpt from Oliver Wendell Holmes: Poet, Littérateur, Scientist Undertaking be long but it is designed to serve as a treasury of infor mation concerning the ancestry, childhood, college life, professional and literary career, and social surroundings of him of Whom it treats, as well as to furnish a careful critical study of his works. I have also added a full bibliography of the writings of Dr. Holmes to date, including his contributions. A...

Excerpt from In Portia's Gardens Imagine a huge wooded ridge of trap and gravel, fronting the rising sun and the sea, some three miles long and between two and three hundred feet high, bearing upon its broad back orchards and farms and villas, and bird-haunted meadows and groves, lazily turning windmills, springs of sweet water, and old Winding lanes full of mints and ¿owers, berries, wild cherries, and ferns, - a natural pleasance in which t...

Excerpt from The Plan of Union: Or a History of the Presbyterian and Congregational Churches of the Western Reserve, With Biographical Sketches of the Early Missionaries The present can only be understood through a knowledge of the past, and only by understanding both past and present can we rightly conduct the future. Where valuable institu tions have been laboriously erected, and afterward have fallen into disrepute, and been misunderstood ...

Excerpt from Henry W. Longfellow: Biography, Anecdote, Letters, CriticismT is the part of a host who is entertaining a distinguished company to keep himself in the background, and see that his guests are properly introduced and grouped. What is true of a social gathering is true of such a work as the present: it is eclectic in character, a mosaic of the choicest thoughts of many minds, for the most part digested and incorporated into a continu...

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet, littérateur, scientist is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1883. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. H...

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