Edwin Percy Whipple
Edwin Percy Whipple (born March 8, 1819 in Gloucester , Massachusetts , † June 16, 1886 in Boston ) was an American writer and essayist .
Life
He received his school education in Salem , wrote newspaper articles at the age of 14 and started working as a clerk in a banking business at the age of 15 .
Through further literary studies, he improved his style, where he was mainly based on Macaulay . Since 1837 employed in a Boston trading house, he took part in the intellectual life of Boston, gave up the commercial profession in 1860 and from then on devoted himself exclusively and with increasing success to 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 had a series of articles on George Eliot appear in the North American Review , which George Henry Lewes declared to be the best critique of their work. With James T. Fields Whipple published a Family Library of British Poetry in 1878 . His collected works were published in 6 volumes (Boston 1882).
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| SURNAME | Whipple, Edwin Percy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American essayist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 8, 1819 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gloucester, Massachusetts |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1886 |
| Place of death | Boston |