Bliss Perry

Bliss Perry (25 November 1860 – 13 February 1954), was an American literary critic, writer, editor, and teacher.

He edited the works of Edmund Burke, Sir Walter Scott, and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

He wrote extensively, including monographs on Walt Whitman,[5] John Greenleaf Whittier,[6][7] Thomas Carlyle[8] and Emerson.

[9] He was also a prolific writer of novels, short fiction, essays, studies in poetry, and an autobiography.

He enjoyed its tranquil setting and its distance from the cares of the busy world of the Atlantic Monthly and his professorships.