Edwin Percy Whipple


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Edwin Percy Whipple

Edwin Percy Whipple

(Born: March 8, 1819 - Died: June 16, 1886)

American critic and essayist.

 

  • “About Critics and Criticism”
    • “About Critics and Criticism”  (Summer 1849, text “A” — “Graham” Manuscript) (initially sent to John Priestly for the American Review, on Jan. 20, 1849, but returned.) (MS now in the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA, purchased at Anderson’s Auction on May 11, 1921 (lot 562), from a collection of material then owned by descendants of Henry B. Hirst.)
    • About Critics and Criticism”  (January 1850, text “B” — Graham’s)
    • “E. P. Whipple and Other Critics”  (1850, text “C” — Works)
    • “About Critics and Criticism” — 1984 — Edgar Allan Poe: Essays and Reviews, ed. G. R. Thompson, New York: Library of America (pp. 1039-1045)

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  • Duyckinck, E. A. and G. L., “Edwin Percy Whipple,” Cyclopedia of American Literature, New York: Charles Scribner, 1856, 2:664-665
  • Heartman, Charles F. and James R. Canny, A Bibliography of First Printings of the Writings of Edgar Allan Poe, Hattiesburg, MS: The Book Farm, 1943.
  • Higginson, Thomas Wentworth, “Edwin Percy Whipple,” Atlantic Monthly, September 1886, 58:345-348
  • Mabbott, Thomas Ollive, ed., The Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Vols 2-3 Tales and Sketches), Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978. (Second printing 1979)
  • Thomas, Dwight and David K. Jackson, The Poe Log: A Documentary Life of Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1849, Boston: G. K. Hall & Sons, 1987.
  • Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds., Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1889, 6:460-461

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