Religion - A Friend in the Library: Volume VIII - A Practical Guide to the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Oliver Wendell Holmes

By Eva March Tappan

Eva March Tappan's “A Friend in the Library” series is a comprehensive guide to the writings of six seminal American writers, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. Religion has no small part to play in the history and development of American literature, and perhaps nowhere more interestingly than in the works of these great writers. In volume eight, Tappan takes a detailed look at the religious references and themes present in their work, illustrating the differences and similarities between the writer's views. This fascinating volume is not to be missed by those with an interest in the history of American literature. Eva March Tappan (1854 – 1930) was an American author and teacher. Other notable works by this author include: “Adventures & Achievements” (1900), “Poems & Rhymes” (1900), and “In the Days of Queen Elizabeth” (1902). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author. This book was first published in 1909.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Read Books Ltd.
• Release date: Feb 7, 2018
• ISBN: 9781528784740

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RELIGION

IN a little home hidden away among the mountains, a quiet, strong, thinking woman lived. Happiness had come into her life, and also sorrow; but she had looked up to the hills and had found strength. One day she spoke, gently and almost with an apology, of some of the hard things that she had had to meet. Then she said half shyly, "I will show you what has helped me. I call it my poem. She brought from an inner room a scrap-book. Bookstores were a long way off, and this was a home-made book. Its leaves were of wrapping paper, each leaf made of two or three folds glued together for strength and stiffness. Here were pasted many poems and bits of prose cut from the newspapers, every one of real merit and of some literary value. The book fell open of itself, and on the page before us was Whittier’s The Eternal Goodness" (ii. 267). She pointed out her favorite stanzas. One