The Homes and haunts of our elder poets[electronic resource] :with portraits and illustrations.

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Descriptive Terms

Authors, American Homes and haunts.
Authors, American

Originator

Powers, Horatio Nelson, 1826-1890.
Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917.
Stoddard, Richard Henry, 1825-1903.
Eaton, Wyatt, 1849-1896, ill.
Gifford, R. Swain (Robert Swain), 1840-1905, ill.
Martin, Homer Dodge, 1836-1897, ill.
Lathrop, Francis, 1849-1909, ill.
Riordan, R., ill.
White, G. M., ill.
Vanderhoof, C. A., ill.
Waud, Alfred R. (Alfred Rudolph), 1828-1891, ill.
Appleton, Brown, ill.

Contents

"William Cullen Bryant" / by H.N. Powers -- "Ralph Waldo Emerson" / by F.B. Sanborn -- "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" / by R.H. Stoddard -- "John Greenleaf Whittier" / by R.H. Stoddard -- "Oliver Wendell Holmes" / by F.B. Sanborn -- "James Russell Lowell" / by F.B. Sanborn.

Publication

New York : D. Appleton and Co. ...

Description

1 online resource (viii, 192 p., [12] leaves of plates) : ill., ports., facsims.

Notes

Half-title.
"The portraits in this volume of Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, and Holmes, are from drawings by Wyatt Eaton, and the views, from drawings or sketches by R. Swan Gifford, Homer Martin, Francis Lathrop, R. Tiordan, G.M. White, C.A. Vanderhoof, A.R. Waud, and Appleton Brown"--P. [6].
Issued in green cloth stamped on front with ornate gold strapwork pattern, filled in with foliage and vignettes in red or black; title in gold; ditto spine; a.e.g.; light blue moire endpapers.
Received from Greg Smart, 2001. Inscribed: "Estelle J. French / From the Class -- / Dec. 25, 1881-- / Harvard Grammar Sch. / Cambridgeport, Mass.

Call Number

Stacks PS141.H55 1881

Material Type

Biography.