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Chapter 9: Whittier at home
One of Whittier's biographers, Mr. William Sloane Kennedy, who has also been in a manner a biographer of Whitman, rather surprises the reader by an unexpected admission in comparing the two.
He says of Whittier, He is democratic, not so powerfully and broadly as Whitman, but more unaffectedly and Whitman, but more unaffectedly and sincerely.
It is a concession of some value, the critic having been one of Whitman's warmest admirers and most generous advocates, and it seems to me to touch the truth very well.
Certainly no one could see Whittier in contact with his fellow-citizens of a country village, without being struck by the genuineness and healthiness, Whitman's warmest admirers and most generous advocates, and it seems to me to touch the truth very well.
Certainly no one could see Whittier in contact with his fellow-citizens of a country village, without being struck by the genuineness and healthiness, so to speak, of the relations between them.
If I may repeat my own words used elsewhere, I should say that there was something most satisfactory in the position of the poet among the village people.
He was their pride and their joy, yet he lived as simply as any one, was careful and abstemious, reticent rather than exuberant in m
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)