Edwin Percy Whipple

Edwin Percy Whipple ( born March 8, 1819 in Gloucester, Massachusetts, † June 16, 1886 in Boston ) was an American novelist and essayist.

Life

He received his education in Salem, wrote the age of 14 newspaper articles and entered with 15 years as a Commission in a banking business.

By further literary studies, he improved his style, which he mainly oriented to Macaulay. Since 1837 employed at a Boston commercial house, he took part in the intellectual life of Boston's share, was in 1860 the merchant profession and devoted himself exclusively and with increasing success of literary activity.

Works

• Essays and Reviews (Boston, 1849, 2 volumes)
• Lectures on Literature and Life ( 4th edition 1853)
• Character and Characteristic Men, a collection of lectures and essays (1866 )
• The Literature of the Age of Elizabeth (1869 )
• Recollections of Eminent Men ( 1887)
• American Literature (1887 )
• Outlooks on Society, Literature and Politics, Essays (1888 )

In 1877 he was in the North American Review a series of articles on George Eliot appear, which declared George Henry Lewes for the best criticism of their works. By James T. Fields Whipple gave out a 1878 Family Library of British Poetry. His collected works were published in 6 volumes (Boston 1882).

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