"Pencillings by the Way", Nathaniel Parker Willis. Nathaniel Parker Willis was an American author, poet and editor. (1806-1867).

This is the first in the University of Akron Press's Critical Editions in Early American Literature series.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This collection is a testament to Nathaniel Parker Willis's versatility as a poet, offering a literary feast that spans the sacred and the humorous, the passionate and the contemplative.