Edwin Percy Whipple (8 March 1819-16 June 1886), essayist and critic, was born at Gloucester, Massachusetts. He chose banking as a career, but regularly contributed critical essays to newspapers and m...
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Edwin Percy Whipple's literary criticism received wide acclaim before he was thirty-five. During the 1840s and early 1850s he contributed articles to many periodicals, including the North American Rev...
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