Edward Rowland Sill — a remark

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“Let a man write about himself. It's the only fellow he knows anything about.”

A modest defence of personal experience as the surest ground for writing · Letter (as reported in biography)

About Edward Rowland Sill

Edward Rowland Sill

29 April 1841–27 February 1887

Edward Rowland Sill was born on 29 April 1841 in Windsor, Connecticut, and died on 27 February 1887 in Cleveland, Ohio. His life was short, frequently unsettled, and shadowed by poor health, yet it produced a body of poetry and prose distinguished by moral seriousness, intellectual candor, and an unusual tenderness…

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