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.”
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Edwin Percy Whipple (1819-1886), was a literary editor, essayist, and critic. Born in Massachusetts, he was a member of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s literary circle, which sometimes made exercising the profession of literary critic difficult. Whipple wrote Character and Characteristic Men (1866), Literature of the Age of Elizabeth (1876), Recollections of Eminent Men (1887), Literature and Politics, and a two-volume study of Charles Dickens (1912).
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