...f his death. He could say of himself what Lowell said dramatically only, We draw our lineage from the oppressed. Compared with him Longfellow, Holmes, and even Lowell, seem the poets of a class; Whittier alone is near the people; setting apart Emerson, who inhabited a world of his own, so near and yet so far. His whole position was indeed characteristic of American society; had he lived in Englan...