WHITTIER This author’s writings, by all lovers of poetry, we believe are much admired and applauded. With the emotions and passions of the mind, he seems to be engaged, for the most part – and seeks less for wild conceits, ‘beautiful when detected’. His versification is vigorous excessively, and his conceptions are animated, and graphic, and full of deep interest…………………………………………
It is to Whittier, in our opinion, that the American public ought to look for a long and elaborate poem, which may redeem the poetical profligacy of our poets; and we trust that he will be induced to commence one, for we believe that there is no one – and we except not the poets of high name among us – who would succeed so well. The Shrine.
(Liberator, August 10, 1833, pg4)
