WHITTER'S POEMS CABINET EDITION HOUGHTON MIFFLIN & CO. - Hardback book
- Over 570 pages
- Copyright, 1848, 1850, 1853, 1856, 1857, 1860, 1863, 1866, 1867, 1868,
1870, 1872, 1874, 1876, 1878, 1881, 1883, 1884, 1886, 1888, and 1891, BY TICKNOR & FIELDS, FIELDS, OSGOOD & CO., JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO., AND JOHN G. WHITTIER. " NOTE BY THE AUTHOR TO THE EDITION OF 1857. IN these volumes, for the first time, a complete collection of my poetical writings has been made. While it is satifactory to know that these scattered children of my brain have found a home, I cannot but regret that I have been unable, by reason of illness, to give that attention to their revision and arrangement, which respect for the opinions of others and my own afterthought and experience demand. That there are pieces in this collection which I would "willingly let die," I am free to confess. But it is now too late to disown them, and I must submit to the inevitable penalty of poetical as well as other sins. There are others, intimately connected with the author's life and times, which owe their tenacity of vitality to the circumstances under which they were written, and events by which they were suggested. The long poem of Mogg Megone was, in a great measure, composed in early life; and it is scarcely necessary to say that its subject is not such as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. " This book is very old and shows sign of wear including edgewear and yellowing of the pages. There are several torn pages plus there is some separation of the binding from the pages in a few spots. No unreadable or missing pages. There is pencil writing from the previous owner on one of the ending blank pages. |