Dear Preceptor: The Life and Times of Thomas Wentworth HigginsonHoughton Mifflin, 1963 - 363 oldal Thomas Wentworth Higginson was a military commander during the America Civil War, an Abolitionist, a Unitarian minister, a writer and editor and the man who brought the poetry of Emily Dickinson before the American public. During his long life he knew many of the great people of his day including Emerson, Thoreau, Julia Ward Howe, and Wendell Phillips. |
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... writing stories for nieces and nephews was no better than tutoring as a career by which to support a marriage ; the problem of what to do with his life was becoming acute . He promised his mother not to spend it in writing second - rate ...
... writing stories for nieces and nephews was no better than tutoring as a career by which to support a marriage ; the problem of what to do with his life was becoming acute . He promised his mother not to spend it in writing second - rate ...
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... writing his essay for Saturday on the changes of public opinion with regard to distinguished men . And in the intervening years he had returned repeatedly to the topic . Charge your style with life , and the public will not ask for co ...
... writing his essay for Saturday on the changes of public opinion with regard to distinguished men . And in the intervening years he had returned repeatedly to the topic . Charge your style with life , and the public will not ask for co ...
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... writing let- ters to total strangers , no record of the letter survives . Perhaps Higginson was tactful enough in making his inquiries that no such letter was ever written . Higginson himself answered the poet's letter at once . His ...
... writing let- ters to total strangers , no record of the letter survives . Perhaps Higginson was tactful enough in making his inquiries that no such letter was ever written . Higginson himself answered the poet's letter at once . His ...
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