Irving Bacheller's The Turning of Griggsby begins with Reverend Appleton Hall recounting this man's life, and is subtitled "Keeping up with [this man].
Irving Bacheller's The Turning of Griggsby begins with Reverend Appleton Hall recounting this man's life, and is subtitled "Keeping up with [this man]." This man is described as "falling on thy foes / as fell the Norse god's hammer blows" in an elegy to him, which claims that "Some die too late and some too soon." That poem, "The Lost Occasion," was a literary reconciliation with this man by a poet who earlier claimed of him, "When faith is lost, when honor dies, / The man is dead!" This subject of the John Greenleaf Whitter poem "Ichabod" is the namesake of the titular "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." FTP, name this man raised from the dead to defend Jabez Stone from Scratch in a Stephen Vincent Benet work about the "Devil and" him.
Irving Bacheller's The Turning of Griggsby begins with Reverend Appleton Hall recounting this man's life, and is subtitled "Keeping up with [this man].
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