This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... discontent of many of our people for this name of Beverly, because (we being but a small place) it has caused on us a constant nickname of Beggarly, being in the mouths of many." They seem to have been a godly lot--these Woodberrys--founders and deacons of churches; men who were ready to fight and die for ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 edition. Excerpt: ... discontent of many of our people for this name of Beverly, because (we being but a small place) it has caused on us a constant nickname of Beggarly, being in the mouths of many." They seem to have been a godly lot--these Woodberrys--founders and deacons of churches; men who were ready to fight and die for their country when the need came, and in their daily lives had to do with the sea, building ships and trading. Of such a stock the poet came; the love of the sea is in his verse--the color and sound of it--with the New England sense of spiritual and moral values, the New England seriousness, and passion for things of the soul. After a boyhood spent in Beverly wandering among the fields in search of flowers or drifting day-long on the bay, Mr. Woodberry went up to Harvard, leaving, it would seem, among his school-fellows at Exeter where he had early identified himself with the literary life, the reputation of a poet. At Harvard, Lowell and Charles Eliot Norton quickly discerned the promise of the lad and it is said that the former kept a room at his house where young Woodberry would be welcome when he wished to come. The class oration which he prepared for graduation was not delivered because certain members of the faculty feared that it might be misinterpreted by the more conservative part of the audience, but was privately printed by the Signet Society in an edition of thirty copies; and The Relation of Pallas Athene to Athens has become the first of those scarce little pamphlets now eagerly sought by collectors. Graduation from Harvard in 1877 was followed by some years of teaching in the University of Nebraska, of wandering in Southern Europe, of reviewing and editing, with occasional creative work in prose or in verse. In 1891 Mr. Woodberry...
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Add this copy of George Edward Woodberry: a Study of His Poetry to cart. $15.00, Sold by Jeffrey Marks Rare Books, ABAA rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rochester, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1917 by The Poetry Review Company.
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1917, The Poetry Review Company
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First edition
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The Poetry Review Company
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1917
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English
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Old ink ownership annotation; spine label creased; otherwise very nice in a spotted jacket with some small chips and tears. 72 pp. 12mo,
Add this copy of George Edward Woodberry: a Study of His Poetry [1917 ] to cart. $30.62, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2009 by Cornell University Library.
