Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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During his prolific literary career, Thomas Bailey Aldrich published short stories, poems, essays, and verse plays. Many of his letters are included in Ferris Greenslet’s The Life of Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1908).

Achievements

Aldrich was one of America’s best-known literary figures during the latter half of the nineteenth century. As a poet, he was already a popular success in 1855—at age nineteen. Ten years later, after having his more mature and less sentimental poetry praised by

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