Author: (Whitman, Walt). Maynard, Laurens.
Title: A Few Notes on Whitman and the New England Writers. [Read at the Annual Meeting of the Walt Whitman Fellowship : International, New York, May 31, 1898. ]
Description: Philadelphia, PA: Walt Whitman Fellowship. 1899. 1899. Philadelphia, PA: Walt Whitman Fellowship. 1899. 1899. Good. - Octavo, 9-1/4 inches high by 6-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in cream-colored printed self-wrappers. The last page is detached, but present, and the inner edge of that page is soiled & darkened. [10] pages, numbered 25 through 34. The edges of the cover page are darkened, particularly the bottom edge of that page. Good. First edition. "Walt Whitman Fellowship Papers: Fifth Year: 5. Philadelphia, April, 1899". RARE essay on the favorable impression of Whitman by Emerson, Thoreau, and Alcott, the middling impressions of Lowell, Longfellow, and Holmes, and the negativity towards Whitman frequently exhibited by Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Laurens Maynard (1866-1917) was an editor at the firm of Samll, Maynard & Co. publishers. Good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; A FEW NOTES ON WHITMAN AND THE NEW ENGLAND WRITERS; LITERARY CRITICISM; AMERICAN LITERATURE; AMERICAN POET; WALT WHITMAN FELLOWSHIP PAPERS: FIFTH YEAR: 5; LAURENS MAYNARD; IMPRESSIONS OF WHITMAN; EMERSON; THOREAU; ALCOTT; LOWELL; LONGFELLOW; H


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