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William Dean Howells writes in Roundabout to Boston of his four years of life in Venice, during which the literary intention was present with him at all times and in all places. The author says he wrote many things in verse and sent them to magazines in every part of the English-speaking world, but they came unerringly back, except in three instances only. Three pieces that editors kept and printed appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Harpers Magazine and the New York Ledger, the third through the kindness of Doctor Edward Everett Hale.

The author says he had nothing but defeats in the sort of literature he supposed was to be his calling, and that he began to write studies of Venetian life which afterwards became a book. The text says that Forceythe Willson, who wrote The Old Sergeant, became known for the rare quality of his poetry, and that now and then there came a poem from Aldrich, or Stedman, or Stoddard.

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William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells (1837 to 1920) was one of the most influential American men of letters of his era, an editor, critic, and prolific novelist. He championed literary realism, supported writers like Mark Twain, and used his own fiction to examine money, class, and conscience in American society.

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Author: William Dean Howells
Pages: 20
Language: English
Genre: Memoir
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