The Merrimack River
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Ball, Benjamin W.) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from The Merrimack River: Hellenics and Other Poems [Benjamin West Ball is the son of Benjamin Ball and Mary Rogers, and was born in Concord, Massachusetts, January 27, 1823. His parents were Concord people, and his ancestors were from Wiltshire, England, and among the early settlers of the town. He had a great-uncle, famous in his day and locality for his strength and pluck, killed in the Battle of Bunker Hill. His childhood and early youth were passed in his native town, until he entered the Academy at Groton, Massachusetts, now known as the Lawrence Academy, where he was prepared for college. After leaving college he returned to Concord, where he passed much of his time cultivating the acquaintance and philosophy of Emerson. Writing of himself, he says: "It was my good fortune to have lived, in my boyhood and youth, in such beautiful New England towns as Concord, Harvard, and Groton, almost under the shadow of Wachusett Mountain. If I have any of the mens divinior of a poet, it was kindled and nurtured by the scenery of the above towns." Of himself in 1851, when he published his first volume of poems, he writes: "I was almost a pagan at that time, being in fact a Greek of the age of Perikles, and an anachronism in the century or Anno Domini in which I was born. But thanks to the writings of Carlyle, Macaulay, Tennyson, and Dickens, who were running their marvellous literary careers in my youth, I soon became a modern." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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