Eva March Tappan's "A Friend in the Library" series is a comprehensive
guide to the writings of six seminal American poets, including Ralph
Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James
Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. This
volume deals specifically with the ideas of history and biography,
exploring the examples of both present in the work of these great
American poets. This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the
American poetry and colonial history. 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.