Multitudinous, mystical, glowing,
But all we do not see;
And a rapture is all our knowing,
That on fiery nerves comes stealing,
An intimate revealing
That all is yet to be."
George Edward Woodberry was born at Beverly, Mass., May 12, 1855. He holds degrees from Harvard, Amherst and Western Reserve, and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His works include the following, both prose and poetry, volumes: "History of Wood Engraving," "Edgar Allan Poe," "Studies in Letters and Life,” “The North Shore Watch," "The Heart of Man," "Wild Eden," "Makers of Literature," "Nathaniel Hawthorne," "America in Literature," "Great Writers," "The Life of Edgar Allan Poe," "The Inspiration of Poetry," "Poems," "Ralph Waldo Emerson," "The Appreciation of Literature," "The Torch," "Wendell Phillips," "A Day at Castrogiovanni," "The Kingdom of All-Souls," "Two Phases of Criticism," "North Africa and the Desert," "The Flight," "Shakespeare," "The Ideal Passion."
Mr. Woodberry makes his home in Beverly, Mass.
