Late in a long literary life, Thomas Wentworth Higginson gathered these essays and memories: the moment he heard Thomas Carlyle laugh, his encounters with manuscripts of Shelley and Keats, and portraits of James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Brockden Brown, Thoreau, the Wampanoag chief Massasoit and a gallery of Boston writers and scholars he had known.
Genial, informed literary reminiscence from the man who first championed Emily Dickinson. Download the free EPUB.