The complete online text of Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete 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...

1. Picture this: It's summer, it's sultry, everyone who is anyone in love and young in this small, country place knows where to park, come darkness, beyond town in the tall grass of a field, with no drive-in movie screen for their excuse,...

Queen of the Mist. By Joan Murray. Beacon. 110 pages, illustrated. $20 Is narrative poetry making a comeback? "Queen of the Mist" doesn't echo, say, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"; it's about a woman going over Niagara Falls in a barrel....