publicly-unappreciated

Updated: August 12, 2026

For the half of a century no mortal has disturbed them. In pace requiescat! The reputation of the author of "Twice-Told Tales" has been confined, until very lately, to literary society; and I have not been wrong, perhaps, in citing him as the example, par excellence, in this country, of the privately admired and publicly-unappreciated man of genius.

- The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index