The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-09
WHITTIERS VERSES.
Author OF snowb0und" Called hoo.
tian Among BOston's Athenians.

To THE EDITOR o, The svs-sr; In your
issue Of July !. a correspondent. |. j Allen.
the subject Of tn. poet whittier and ip Sa
verse, The purpose o OF Mr. Alen.s letter
appears TO be TO convict educated New
Ehsls ao OF aa aat s.nx n' For to words
nose be cites WhittIer's noetrv. w,Icb -.
pose ne o,.es Mn u. p %, ,ho,, went:
AthenIan literature" and he describes the
poet as educated in and writing in the shad.
Of Boston = cameridse' After SHOWING tina,
war. law and for "susquehanna' and
yonr concludes his letter S a
tbs following handsome tribute; 1T i. to WYNN w
heresy, In all else of his ass poems , '"r1S
no word we would change, not line to erase.
supposition that Whittier was an educated
Bostonian and writer OF "A. Athenian iIters'
Rnstor.s Samhridoe" Whittier's vontS MI. ~
Boston ,amorloRe. . white, sou,h was
exception OF such instruction as he rcceived
| during a few months spent at country and
village schools. ne was Ell -eau,a,'M man.
nis ItISe uispa3 ny In ~ a., "" aaNhs
from f9 whom he sprane and among whom ii,
| life was passed
MT. huen errs aHaIh " s'ippoSihS. lhat BE-
| cause Whittier rimed law ana war he
prononnced inc FORMER as tnouph ~ were
nounsed war" "wax Again. Whi''.ssf
hnnemss be said aSmsmehanner but hccom mSs
no q IN Lar" WITH termna "ub" or az.
This fault is not Whittier : alone, but is com.
mon mon tom, 70 most New Ensianders: eaSca,sd and
MA tss eDsS;s5tSs . yIs be- An r"'sa
false rines which Your correspondent finds in
Whittier verse IS al,h jtS sbs il sGPa
VI, when NJ he undertook p wife ri@e he void i,
conscious that war ana tor ong. y. 10 end
WIsh m u y, % ~ I, nd manv a,,h
| or Lowell, except when the latter drops INTO
dialect in the "Blglow Papers.
inns was , .me a'a and ubiob mnfort',,ir
and unoonsciousiy he wrote. The most
| curious error into which your correspondent
!, falls Is contained ~ the trlpnte Whlch ne pays
70 .ne 2uitia +, S"e oSnnnt Tor tho folsc rpe.
| which Mr.. Allen points out, there is not a PAGE
| OF Whttler's verse which Ia not snrn killed. with
| rimes which are perfectly g3ou ahKee hTo'
tlan. aithougn oS no iIitaf r., ~ ,,d N:
L. an IN no I IN nf evsrv snhooboy:
,...
The saddest are these: "Itmight have heen
,,-1inos wr,tton In the Roo,, NJ a Friend q.
whittier says:
Cad rro,n.r. MANNING o..r their trust
Children by want and misery nursed.
Tasting llfes bitter cup atnrst.
Which indicates that in the Whittier housH-
hold babies were "nussed" from the very
lqst. ,, or, ,nst.roos a, u-hi,ticr.s
yonIaesm In The course Of the Lines
last quoted from he rimes mot" and
Thought" with perfect seriousness n ne
WITH ref Of the last stansa Of INV Dream
ne makes ~, hlatcn WIZ ICY, o.. liz a.
ne NV thocb Il Vim ed WITH "come te
in The WIFI Of To;daIy1: Joined: c We qTs
keeSar's Vision" with H Ihshlnq HILL PIERCE.
To THE EDITOR OF THE Sun sly: | rsad
with T. much h interest and not little puzzle
m m.n for wondered e ' Whether he was ronca
Did INV one ever hear New Yorker say
"bwed. and "awonnd unless said . New I York..
was either aHected. tongue teo or p'aFnR
the part of titled young Enslishman in
amateur thentrcalsp And II New Workers
saw sYawk. us IL not better than il they curved
sYoror-rk." almost as If it were -Yorlck."
7 Alas, moor Yorick,
a. to- TO Bostonians And New Highlander.
speaking throush 'he nose-Vhey 90 ho.' w
al hne'iea,i' w" ~,
least through the nose. see MT hneh WI
sed saSnr %ha is this fn man @
But In order to initiate the speech of real
adaown East Yankee" pinch the nose 80 that
no sound can come through it. and then say
set"what do you set9 Not talking through
tbe nose certainly. and vet the result is very
YANKEE In its sound This may be a ouhho
Nv General consent Yankee speech is nasal,
nSd there ia no doubt that many Yankees
are Ms careless as many Fngshmen and
many ma New S' Wssterners. sontherner.
and Canadians. There is also no doubt that
some SON Yankees say "huntln." others saw
n GOOD d many New Workers. say @Clut'n"
II IS as "untidy to say "Cllnt n" as it is to say
ahmntin las senator Hoar is alleged to HAYS
p T" that world. -
Rut when MIR Allen says that BostonIans
saw "lawr" and "draWr."i wonder wheth"r
he doesn't mean New Workers | though
the addition OF n tongue cnrler to words rrt-
ING In Nv" was New York's special prcrouN-
tive ri never forget the boy at school n
brooklyn who said. IL sawr i'm take tic
draw wing home
And now we come to what he saws Of Whit
tier: Hence it happened that this form ~