Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 / 2008-06-19 00:00:00

EBOOK, CRITICISM, BY WHITTIER ***


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CRITICISM
BY
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

CONTENTS:
EVANGELINE
MIRTH AND MEDICINE
FAME AND GLORY
FANATICISM
THE POETRY OF THE NORTH


CRITICISM
EVANGELINE
A review of Mr. Longfellow's poem.
EUREKA! Here, then, we have it at last,--an American poem, with the lack
of which British reviewers have so long reproached us. Selecting the
subject of all others best calculated for his purpose,--the expulsion of
the French settlers of Acadie from their quiet and pleasant homes around
the Basin of Minas, one of the most sadly romantic passages in the
history of the Colonies of the North,--the author has succeeded in
presenting a series of exquisite pictures of the striking and peculiar
features of life and nature in the New World. The range of these
delineations extends from Nova Scotia on the northeast to the spurs of
the Rocky Mountains on the west and the Gulf of Mexico on the south.
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