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Biography

Name: John Greenleaf Whittier
Birth Date: December 7, 1807
Death Date: September 7, 1892
Place of Birth: Haverhill, Massachusetts, United States
Place of Death: Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: poet

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Biography of John Greenleaf Whittier
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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...
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Biography of John Greenleaf Whittier
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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...
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Biography of John Greenleaf Whittier
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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...
 


Quotations
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John Greenleaf Whittier Quotes
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John Greenleaf Whittier ( 17 December 1807 - 7 September 1892 ) American poet and abolitionist. Maud Muller (1856) The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the...


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John Greenleaf Whittier Information
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John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United...


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The Washington Post
John Greenleaf Whittier's Se ...
03/28/2004: 568 words, approx. 2 pages
John Greenleaf Whittier's Selected Poems, edited by Brenda Wineapple, will come as a revelation to anyone who was force-fed Whittier in school and never turned back to him. I had an eighth- grade teacher who recited "Snow-bound" with such dull zeal that I decided...
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Modern Age
John Greenleaf Whittier's Civil War.
03/22/2005: 3,688 words, approx. 12 pages
THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA recently issued a volume of the poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier. This is fitting. While he will never be placed in the first rank of poets and even his admirers admit that he authored much dismissible verse, Whittier, who...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Robert Penn Warren
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Poet and novelist Robert Penn Warren won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel All the King's Men. In the following excerpt, he relates Whitter's maturation as a poet to his work as a journalist and political propagandist.
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Critical Essay by Lewis E. Weeks, Jr.
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In the following excerpt, the author contrasts the backgrounds and biases of various Whittier critics of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Critical Essay by James E. Rocks
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In the following excerpt, Rocks relates Whittier's poem Snow-Bound to nineteenth-century debates on home and family.
 


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