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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 4: editorial Experiments.—1826-1828. (search)
nt. The mischief was done, however, and the youthful poet (whose eldest sister had sent The Exile's Departure to the Free Press office without his knowledge), having now seen his own verses in print, and received warm encouragement from the editor, contributed thereafter to almost every number of the paper so long as Mr. Garrison retained control of it. Two weeks after the publication of Whittier's first poem, a second, in blank verse, entitled The Deity, appeared, with an editorial Underwood's Life of Whittier, p. 396. paragraph declaring that his poetry bore the stamp of true poetic genius, which, if carefully cultivated, would rank him among the bards of his country. Other pieces followed, on such themes as The Vale of the Merrimack, The Death of Alexander, The Voice of Time, The Burial of the Princess Charlotte of Wales, To the Memory of William Penn, The Shipwreck, Paulowna, Memory, Benevolence, etc., but they are so little above mediocrity that it is not easy to see wher