Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier 3 volumes 1st edition (Edit)

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Year: 1975

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Whittier, John Greenleaf; edited by John B. Pickard. The Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1975, 1st edition. 3 volumes, scuffed, moderately edge worn covers, else very good. "In his lifetime John Greenleaf Whittier wrote over fifty-five hundred known letters, along with hundreds, perhaps thousands, now lost or in private hands. Significantly, during the major portion of his mature years from 1828 to 1860, the most crucial ones in his development as a man and writer, he wrote less than a thousand known letters....Following the success of Snowbound and The Tent on the Beach in the late 1860s, Whittier became a national poet whose popularity rivaled that of Longfellow." "The first two volumes, dealing with the years 1828 though 1860, print all the extant Whittier letters from these years, 961 letters in all. Volume III selects 527 letters from the remaining years, attempting to include all letters that have any biographical, literary, social, or political significance." A wonderful collection of letters which lets the reader understand this well-known poet, writer, reformer, pacifist, and political activist.

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