Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Whittier's Relation to German Life and Thought: A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy
He was interested also in the literature and history of other countries, as his poems and prose articles on French, Italian, Scandinavian and Eastern themes show.
In writing this book I have not tried to prove any strong German in?uence upon Whittier, as this does not exist, but only to show how far he was touched by it and especially his interest in the Germans with whom he came in contact here at home, because of their common sympathies in reform movements, and especially on the anti-slavery question.
I have gone carefully over all the newspapers of which Whittier was for a time editor, and those to which he contributed. It was not possible to get hold of all his unpublished letters, as many are in the hands of friends who consider them too per sonal for publication; but as far as possible I have consulted these letters, and have published the parts which bear upon my subject.
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