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The Little Pilgrim (1853–1869) was a monthly children’s magazine, published in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Leander K. Lippincott, and edited by his wife, Sara Jane Lippincott, working under the pseudonym Grace Greenwood. [1]
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English: First page of The Little Pilgrim, a periodical edited by Grace Greenwood. Features the first publication of the poem "The Barefoot Boy" by John Greenleaf Whittier, including an illustration. Philadelphia: January 1855, vol. II, no. 1: p. 1.
Roberts published his first volume of poems, with a preface by John Masefield, in 1913.He published his first novel, Scissors, in 1923. By the 1930s, Roberts was an established bestselling author.
Among his influential anthologies are Master Poems of the English Language, Immortal Poems of the English Language, The Pocket Book of Modern Verse, and the Little Treasury Poetry Series, which were used in colleges and high schools around the U.S. in the 1950s and 1960s. During his lifetime, anthologies he edited sold more than two million ...
Cornelius Conway Felton, a Greek professor at Harvard College, was personally moved by the poem.As he wrote in a letter to Whittier dated June 26, 1856, "The sensations and memories it called up were delicious as a shower in summer afternoon; and I forgot the intervening years, forgot Latin and Greek — forgot boots and shoes and long-tailed and broad-tailed coats — and revelled again in ...
The frame story of the poem, as set out in the 858 lines of Middle English which make up the General Prologue, is of a religious pilgrimage. The narrator, Geoffrey Chaucer, is in The Tabard Inn in Southwark, where he meets a group of 'sundry folk' who are all on the way to Canterbury, the site of the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket, a martyr reputed to have the power of healing the sinful.
The first publication of the poem in the UK was in The Times of 15 May 1922, while the poem also appeared in the US in the New York World. [6] The text of the poem includes references to Nieuport (a coastal port down-river from Ypres ), and "four Red Rivers", said to be the Somme , the Marne , the Oise and the Yser , which all flow through the ...