Biography EssayJohn 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 d...
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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 n...
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Whittier's importance to America's cultural life, and the claim he makes on our remembrance, is at least two-fold. In the first place, his life was and remains a model of dedication to the twin princi...
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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 committe...
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In the following excerpt, originally published in 1902, Higginson discusses the influence of religion and of moral and philosophical issues on Whittier's distinctive American style.
In . . . co...
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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.
From time to time it is interesting as well as profitab...
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In the following excerpt, Clark traces the development of Whittier's themes from an early taste for "localistic sensationalism" through his championship of abolition to a broad co...
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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 journal...
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In the following essay, Ringe contends that Whittier's major prose work, Margaret Smith's Journal in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1678-79, achieves artistic unity though the author...
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In the following excerpt, Rocks relates Whittier's poem Snow-Bound to nineteenth-century debates on home and family.
When John Greenleaf Whittier's younger sister Elizabeth, the companio...
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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier
