 | 1855 - 396 pages
...is quite enraptured with the " Leaves of Grass" and says: "CONCORD, Mass., July 21, 1851. "DEAR SIR: I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift...the most extraordinary piece of •wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. It... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pages
...that that praise should have been made public. In 1855 he wrote Whitman the following letter : — " I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift...it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. It... | |
 | 1881 - 912 pages
...portrait, $2 ; in half calf, extra, $4 ; in tree calf, $5. Ralph Waldo Emerson terms the main poems "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." The ficvite des Deux Momies pronounces the war-pieces — " Drum Taps " — the most fervid and profound... | |
 | Richard Maurice Bucke - 1883 - 270 pages
...splendid fame. He wrote to Walt Whitman the following letter : CONCORD, MASS., July 2ist, DEAR SIR, — I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift...it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. It... | |
 | Walt Whitman - 1882 - 412 pages
...ever seen. Emerson literally exhausted panegyric upon it in his letter of 1855, incidentally calling it 'the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." Defended by clergymen, extolled by poets, lauded by scholars and men of letten throughout the civilized... | |
 | George Douglas Campbell Duke of Argyll - 1885 - 78 pages
...ever seen. Emerson literally exhausted panegyric upon it in his letter of 1855, incidentally calling it " the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed."'—Afov York Tribune. Post Svo, Cloth. With Portrait. Price ids. t>d. Specimen Days and... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1887 - 272 pages
...was, Emerson wrote a letter of approval and encouragement: — "I am not blind to the worth of this wonderful gift of Leaves of Grass. I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. . .... | |
 | Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1887 - 268 pages
...was, Emerson wrote a letter of approval and encouragement: — "I am not blind to the worth of this wonderful gift of Leaves of Grass. I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. . .... | |
 | 1888 - 344 pages
...swords, And hale them hearing along. As long ago as 1855, Emerson, a clear sighted critic, wrote : " I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift...it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. I give... | |
 | 1891 - 814 pages
...be worth a note. Here it is verbatim : CONCORD, Mass'tts, 21 July. 1886. WALT WHITMAN— DEAR SIR, I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift...it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy. It... | |
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I am not blind to the worth of the wonderful gift of "Leaves of Grass." I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed. 
