This is volume eleven of Eva March Tappan's "A Friend in the Library"
series, being 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 concept
of literature, exploring its etymology and history with reference to
these notable figures. "A Friend In The Library" is an easy-to-digest
guide that will appeal to anyone with an interest in the English
language, and it is not to be missed by students and teachers of English
literature. 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.