The Trivia Situation, Part 42

Each day for the next few weeks I will be giving away a volume of the Harvard Classics from a complete set dating back to 1910. Here’s how it works. I’m going to ask a question relating to the volume in question. If you think you know that answer, email it to thewholefivefeet AT gmail DOT com. You will have until five o’clock Eastern time to respond. I will then randomly select the winner from among one of the correct answers, and that winner will get the book.

Here is today’s question on Volume 42: English Poetry Tennyson to Whitman. Whose letter of praise did Walt Whitman quote as a “blurb” on editions of Leaves of Grass.

The Trivia Situation will be taking the rest of the week off to celebrate American independence.  As Whitman says:

Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,
All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old,
Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,
Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,
A grand, sane, towering, seated Mother,
Chair’d in the adamant of Time.

Today’s winner will be announced on Monday.