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February 2nd, 1832 AD (search for this): chapter 3
between politics and poetry; and there presently appeared a third occupation in the form of that latent physical disease which haunted his whole life. This obliged him to give up the editorship of the New England Review and to leave Hartford on Jan. 1, 1832. He had been editing the Literary remains of J. G. C. Brainard, an early Connecticut poet, and wrote a preface, but did not see it in print until he had returned to Haverhill. He wrote about himself thus frankly to Mrs. Sigourney (Feb. 2, 1832) as to his condition of mind and body at that period. I intended when I left Hartford to proceed immediately to the West. But a continuance of ill health has kept me at home. I have scarcely done anything this winter. There have been few days in which I have been able to write with any degree of comfort. I have indeed thrown together a poem of some length, the title of which ( Moll Pitcher ) has very little connection with the subject. This poem I handed to a friend of mine, and
1857 AD (search for this): chapter 3
district-school, sixty years ago. That they met with some degree of favour at that time may be accounted for by the fact that the makers of verse were then few in number, with little competition in their unprofitable vocation, and that the standard of criticism was not discouragingly high. Works, IV. 332. It is curious that he here threw into this shadow of oblivion even his first long poem, Mogg Megone, which he had nevertheless included in the first collective edition of his poems, in 1857, though saying of it in his preface that it was in a great measure composed in early life; and it is scarcely necessary to say that its subject is not such as the writer would have chosen at any subsequent period. An attempt was made by Mr. Thayer to get a volume containing The poems of Adrian published by subscription in 1828, but this failed of success, perhaps fortunately. The best description of Whittier's personal bearing at that time is given by one who was then a friend and assoc
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