Edwin Percy Whipple
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Edwin Percy Whipple (1819 - 1886), essayist and critic, born in Gloucester, Mass, was a brilliant and discriminating critic. His first book was Essays and Reviews (two volumes, 1849), which was followed by:
- Character and Characteristic Men (1866)
- Literature of the Age of Elizabeth (1876)
- Recollections of Eminent Men (1887)
- American Literature and Other Papers (1887)
- Outlooks on Society (1888)
- Success and its Conditions
- Literature and Politics
An edition of his Charles Dickens (two volumes, Boston), with an introduction by Arlo Bates, appeared in 1912.
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- This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.
- This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.
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