Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Whittier” in chapter 5, page 333 of Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Letters and Journals of Thomas Wentworth Higginson:
...if you please, but not necessarily barren.
Emerson and Hawthorne certainly did not find it practically barren, though the latter in one moment of degeneracy made a similar remark.
The strength of Whittier has been in finding all needed elements of poetry at home.
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