Edwin Percy Whipple

Edwin Percy Whipple (1819 - 1886), essayist and critic, born in Gloucester, Massachusetts. For a time, he was the main literary critic for Philadelphia-based "Graham's Magazine". [Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson. "The Literary History of Philadelphia". Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1906: 283. ISBN 1932109455] Later, in 1848, he became the Boston correspondent to the "Literary World" under Evert Augustus Duyckinck and George Long Duyckinck. [Miller, Perry. "The Raven and the Whale: Poe, Melville, and the New York Literary Scene". Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 (first printed 1956): 239. ISBN 0-8018-5750-3] Historian Perry Miller called Whipple "Boston's most popular critic". [Miller, Perry. "The Raven and the Whale: Poe, Melville, and the New York Literary Scene". Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 (first printed 1956): 75. ISBN 0-8018-5750-3]

elected list of works

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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