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Edwin Percy Whipple (March 8, 1819 - June 16, 1886) was an American essayist and critic. ==Biography== He was born in Gloucester, Massachusetts in 1819. For a time, he was the main literary critic for Philadelphia-based ''Graham's Magazine''.〔Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson. ''The Literary History of Philadelphia''. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1906: 283. ISBN 1-932109-45-5〕 Later, in 1848, he became the Boston correspondent to ''The Literary World'' under Evert Augustus Duyckinck and George Long Duyckinck.〔Miller, Perry. ''The Raven and the Whale: Poe, Melville, and the New York Literary Scene''. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 (first printed 1956): 239. ISBN 0-8018-5750-3〕 Historian Perry Miller called Whipple "Boston's most popular critic".〔Miller, Perry. ''The Raven and the Whale: Poe, Melville, and the New York Literary Scene''. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 (first printed 1956): 75. ISBN 0-8018-5750-3〕 Whipple was also a public lecturer. In 1850, he defended the intelligence of George Washington and compared him to other brilliant men of his time in a speech which later became known as "The Genius of Washington". Whipple was a close friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne. After Hawthorne's death in 1864, Whipple served as a pallbearer for his funeral alongside Bronson Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Thomas Fields, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.〔Baker, Carlos. ''Emerson Among the Eccentrics: A Group Portrait''. New York: Viking Press, 1996: 448. ISBN 0-670-86675-X.〕 Whipple's close relationship with other Boston-area authors occasionally tinted his reviews. Edward Emerson later noted, "No other member of the Saturday Club has ever been more loyally felicitous in characterizing the literary work of his associates."〔Buell, Lawrence. ''New England Literary Culture: From Revolution Through Renaissance''. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986: 44. ISBN 0-521-37801-X〕 Whipple died in 1886 and was interred at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Edwin Percy Whipple」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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