...ng to promote. ... I would rather have the memory of a Howard, a Wilberforce, and a Clarkson than the undying fame of a Byron. The final sentence is especially noteworthy, as giving the keynote of Whittier 's subsequent career. His life from this time was that of a journalist and a reformer, rather than that of a man of letters. It would be easy, however, to lay too much stress upon his lack of ac...