BY W. SLOANE KENNEDY Author of a "Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow," Etc. REVISED AND ENLARGED
INTRODUCTION.
CONTENTS. Part I. Life. I. Ancestry 9 The Poet's Titles.
Part I. LIFE.
CHAPTER I. ANCESTRY.
CHAPTER II. THE VALLEY OF THE MERRIMACK.
CHAPTER III. BOYHOOD.
CHAPTER IV. EDITOR AND AUTHOR: FIRST VENTURES.
CHAPTER V. WHITTIER THE REFORMER. "God said: 'Break thou these
CHAPTER VI. AMESBURY.
CHAPTER VII. LATER DAYS.
CHAPTER VIII. PERSONAL.
Part II. ANALYSIS OF HIS GENIUS AND WRITINGS.
CHAPTER I. THE MAN. "Not by the page word-painted Let life be
CHAPTER II. THE ARTIST.
CHAPTER III. POEMS SERIATIM.
CHAPTER IV. THE KING'S MISSIVE. " Under the great hill sloping
CHAPTER V. POEMS BY GROUPS.
CHAPTER VI. PROSE WRITINGS.
Part III. TWILIGHT AND EVENING BELL.
CHAPTER I. TWILIGHT AND EVENING BELL.