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    History and Biography I - A Friend in the Library: Volume IV - A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes
    History and Biography I - A Friend in the Library: Volume IV - A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes
    History and Biography I - A Friend in the Library: Volume IV - A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes
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    History and Biography I - A Friend in the Library: Volume IV - A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes

    By Eva March Tappan

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    Eva March Tappan's “A Friend in the Library” series is a comprehensive guide to the writings of six seminal American poets, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. This volume deals specifically with the ideas of history and biography, exploring the examples of both present in the work of these great American poets. This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the American poetry and colonial history. Eva March Tappan (1854 – 1930) was an American author and teacher. Other notable works by this author include: “Adventures & Achievements” (1900), “Poems & Rhymes” (1900), and “In the Days of Queen Elizabeth” (1902). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author. This book was first published in 1909.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateFeb 9, 2018
    ISBN9781528784665
    History and Biography I - A Friend in the Library: Volume IV - A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes

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      History and Biography I - A Friend in the Library - Eva March Tappan

      HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY, I

      IT occurred to me one day that it would be worth while to see to what extent American history and biography had been related by our six poets. The more I read, the more interesting the search became, for I found it quite possible to follow along in their poems and sketches the main events of our history and the lives of a large number of our leading men.

      The colonial period is especially rich in legends and traditions, in bits of real history, and bits of history half hidden by a golden mist of poetry and romance. Looking back to the days before the coming of Columbus, we find Longfellow’s Skeleton in Armor (i. 63). The poet had seen a skeleton with a breastplate of brass, which had been dug up at Fall River. Many people thought these were the remains of some hardy Norseman who had made his way to our shores eight or nine hundred years before. The idea occurred to Longfellow of connecting this with the Round Tower at Newport, the Old Stone Mill, and therefore he wrote of the viking bold who had stolen

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