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John Greenleaf Whittier

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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
364 words, approx. 1 pages
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
4,833 words, approx. 16 pages
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
3,883 words, approx. 13 pages
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...
 


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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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...


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Review by Robert Penn Warren
11,270 words, approx. 38 pages
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.
9,637 words, approx. 32 pages
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
7,379 words, approx. 25 pages
In the following excerpt, Rocks relates Whittier's poem Snow-Bound to nineteenth-century debates on home and family.
 


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