... then, and said how he longed for his old, wild life in the Desert, for a sight of the palms, and the sands, but above all for its freedom. It would be interesting to find out what effect Whittier 's physical condition had upon the production of a work quite unique among his prose writings, The Opium Eater, published in the New England Magazine in 1833, in his twenty-fourth year. He spoke of...