Eva March Tappan's "e;A Friend in the Library"e; series is a comprehensive guide to the writings of six seminal American poets, including Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. This volume deals specifically with the ideas of history and biography, exploring the examples of both present...