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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 2 : school days and early ventures (search)
Chapter 2: school days and early ventures
The whole story of Whittier's beginnings as a poet is like something from an old-fashioned German novel of Friendship — for instance, by Jean Paul — it was the casual discovery of a gifted boy by another barely grown to manhood, this leading to a life-long friendship, occasionally clouded for a time by decided differences of opinion and action.
William Lloyd Garrison, a young printer's apprentice, just embarked at twenty-one on a weekly newspaper in his native town of Newburyport, near Haverhill, published in the twelfth number some verses entitled The Exile's departure and signed W., Haverhill, June 1, 1826 ; verses to which the young editor appended this note, If W.
at Haverhill will continue to favour us with pieces as beautiful as the one inserted in our poetical department of to-day, we shall esteem it a favour.
The poem itself, now interesting chiefly as a milestone, is as follows:--
Fond scenes, which have delighted my youthfu
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)