The complete online text of Criticism, Part 4, from Volume VII, by John Greenleaf Whittier.

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was an American poet whose humanitarianism and great popular appeal established him as an important 19th-century figure. John Greenleaf Whittier was born on a farm near Haverhill, Mass., on Dec. 17, 1807, of poor Quake...

John Greenleaf Whittier's importance to America's cultural life, and the claim he makes on our remembrance, is at least twofold. In the first place his life was and remains a model of dedication to the twin principles of freedom and tolerance. In the lon...

Although John Greenleaf Whittier's reputation as a poet declined drastically in the twentieth century, his career is of continuing interest as an example of the writer functioning as a deeply committed reform activist. In the thirty-year struggle to abol...

M. G. Brock and M. C. Curthoys, eds. The History of the University of Oxford, Volume VII: Nineteenth-Century Oxford, Part Two. New York: The Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press. 2000. Pp. lv, 993. [pounds sterling]75.00. ISBN 0-19-951017-2. With the publication of Volume...

"The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize." - Dr. Shigeo Shingo, Consultant to Toyota Motor Corporation The Pareto Principle Around the turn of the twentieth century, Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto made a couple of...