[DOWNLOAD] "My First Visit to New England (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)" by William Dean Howells # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: My First Visit to New England (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance)
- Author : William Dean Howells
- Release Date : January 24, 2012
- Genre: Classics,Books,Fiction & Literature,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 277 KB
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pubOne.info present you this new edition. If there was any one in the world who had his being more wholly in literature than I had in 1860, I am sure I should not have known where to find him, and I doubt if he could have been found nearer the centres of literary activity than I then was, or among those more purely devoted to literature than myself. I had been for three years a writer of news paragraphs, book notices, and political leaders on a daily paper in an inland city, and I do not know that my life differed outwardly from that of any other young journalist, who had begun as I had in a country printing-office, and might be supposed to be looking forward to advancement in his profession or in public affairs. But inwardly it was altogether different with me. Inwardly I was a poet, with no wish to be anything else, unless in a moment of careless affluence I might so far forget myself as to be a novelist. I was, with my friend J. J. Piatt, the half-author of a little volume of very unknown verse, and Mr. Lowell had lately accepted and had begun to print in the Atlantic Monthly five or six poems of mine
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