The Friendship of Anthony Trollope and Richard Henry Dana, Jr

In 1843 Whittier contributed to The Pioneer, the first magazine venture of the brilliant young Lowell. Although in the same year he published Massachusetts to Virginia in the Liberator, it may be significant that this poem appeared without his signature, though he commonly had signed earlier contributions. Although he continued to publish anti-slavery poems until the Civil War, by about 1843 he had ceased to be an abolitionist primarily and a literary artist only incidentally. Instead, he had returned to his first love of literature. Thereafter he would continue to be a reformer until the slaves were freed, but at heart and in an increasing proportion of his activity he would be a man of letters

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• US travellers and the poetics of the Cuban aporia (1859)

  Ronald Briggs•Studies in Travel Writing•2014

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