Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Martin F. Tupper, Proverbial Wisdom

Martin F. Tupper was a writer and poet born in 1810 in London. He wrote the perverbial philosophy which was "long series of didactic moralisings". A well known one was, 
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech"
This book was released in volumes, numerous amounts, which is relateable to Whitman's Leaves of Grass and his different editions.The two were often compared to one another in written reviews of their works. Tupper was in New York  in 1851 and at the time Walt was working and living in Brooklyn. At this time he was developing an aesthetic theory that would later become, Leaves of Grass. 
A writer that was molding his own would have picked up a work that was getting so much publicity and would undoubtedly have influence on Whitman. 



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