Edwin Percy Whipple

In 1850 he defended the intelligence of George Washington and compared him to other brilliant men of his time in a speech which later became known as "The Genius of Washington". and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Selected list of works

His first book was Essays and Reviews (two volumes 1849) which was followed by:
Character and Characteristic Men (1866)
Literature of the Age of Elizabeth (1876)
Recollections of Eminent Men (1887)
American Literature and Other Papers (1887)
Outlooks on Society (1888)
Success and its Conditions
Literature and Politics
An edition of his Charles Dickens (two volumes Boston) with an introduction by Arlo Bates appeared in 1912.