Description: Character and Characteristic Men - Edwin Percy Whipple - 1870 Very scarce book -- I was unable to find any actual copied on line (only copied editions). The book is in very nice condition: fading to cloth on cover, Washington Literary Society sticker on inside cover. The book measures 7 x 4.75 inches and contains 324 pages. Edwin Percy Whipple (March 8, 1819 – June 16, 1886) was an American essayist and critic. Whipple was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1819. For a time, he was the main literary critic for Philadelphia-based Graham's Magazine. Later, in 1848, he became the Boston correspondent to The Literary World under Evert Augustus Duyckinck and George Long Duyckinck. Historian Perry Miller called Whipple "Boston's most popular critic". 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. 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." Whipple died in 1886 and was interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was through the success of his lectures, however, that Whipple gained renown as a public intellectual. Small of stature, myopic, and shy, Whipple was nonetheless a compelling public speaker, known for his satirical wit and modest disposition. Traveling the country at the height of the lyceum movement, Whipple delivered as many as one thousand public lectures, drawing large audiences from Bangor to St. Louis. Whipple subsequently edited and compiled his lectures, published as Lectures on Subjects Connected with Literature and Life (1849) and Character and Characteristic Men (1866).
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