Edwin Percy Whipple
Edwin Percy Whipple (March 8, 1819 – June 16, 1886)<ref name=Whipple>Template:Cite book</ref> was an American essayist and critic.
BiographyEdit
He was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1819. For a time, he was the main literary critic for Philadelphia-based Graham's Magazine.<ref>Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson. The Literary History of Philadelphia. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1906: 283. Template:ISBN</ref> Later, in 1848, he became the Boston correspondent to The Literary World under Evert Augustus Duyckinck and George Long Duyckinck.<ref>Miller, Perry. The Raven and the Whale: Poe, Melville, and the New York Literary Scene. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 (first printed 1956): 239. Template:ISBN</ref> Historian Perry Miller called Whipple "Boston's most popular critic".<ref>Miller, Perry. The Raven and the Whale: Poe, Melville, and the New York Literary Scene. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 (first printed 1956): 75. Template:ISBN</ref>
Whipple was also a public lecturer. In 1850, he defended the intelligence of George Washington and compared him to other brilliant men of his time in a speech which later became known as "The Genius of Washington".
Whipple was a close friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne. After Hawthorne's death in 1864, Whipple served as a pallbearer for his funeral alongside Amos Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James T. Fields, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.<ref>Baker, Carlos. Emerson Among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait. New York: Viking Press, 1996: 448. Template:ISBN.</ref> Whipple's close relationship with other Boston-area authors occasionally tinted his reviews. Edward Emerson later noted, "No other member of the Saturday Club has ever been more loyally felicitous in characterizing the literary work of his associates."<ref>Buell, Lawrence. New England Literary Culture: From Revolution Through Renaissance. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986: 44. Template:ISBN</ref>
Whipple died in 1886 and was interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Selected list of worksEdit
His first book was Essays and Reviews (two volumes, 1848), which was followed by:
- Literature and Life (1850)
- Character and Characteristic Men (1866)
- Success and its Conditions (1871)
- Literature of the Age of Elizabeth (1876)
- Recollections of Eminent Men (1887)
- American Literature and Other Papers (1887)
- Outlooks on Society, Literature and Politics (1888)
An edition of his Charles Dickens (two volumes, Boston), with an introduction by Arlo Bates, appeared in 1912.
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- Whipple biography at the Boston Public Library web site
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- The Genius of Washington speech