Bliss Perry

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Bliss Perry (born 1860 in Williamstown, Massachusetts, died 1954) was an American professor of literature and author. He held positions at Princeton University and Harvard University. His published works include fiction, literary criticism and biographies.

Bliss Perry is also famed in certain Vermont lore for "establishing" the "summer colony" of Greensboro, Vermont. He enjoyed its tranquil setting and its distance from the cares of the busy world of the Atlantic Monthly and his Professorships. Fly fishing was one of his key hobbies, which led to the publication of "Fishing With a Worm."

[edit] References

• Walt Whitman: An Encyclopedia, edited by J R LeMaster and Donald D Kummings, page 512

[edit] External links

• Works by Bliss Perry at Project Gutenberg