EDWIN PERCY WHIPPLE
\ˈɛdwɪn pˈɜːsi wˈɪpə͡l], \ˈɛdwɪn pˈɜːsi wˈɪpəl], \ˈɛ_d_w_ɪ_n p_ˈɜː_s_i w_ˈɪ_p_əl]\
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An American literary critic; born at Gloucester, Mass., March 8, 1819; died in Boston, June 16, 1886. He published: "Essays and Reviews" (2 vols., 1848-49); "Lectures on Subjects connected with Literature and Life" (1849); "Character and Characteristic Men" (1867); "The Literature of the Age of Elizabeth" (1868); "Success and its Conditions" (1871); and posthumously published "Recollections of Eminent Men" (1887); "American Literature and Other Papers" (1887); and "Outlooks on Society, Literature, and Politics" (1888).
By Charles Dudley Warner
