The complete online text of Narrative and Legendary Poems: Among the Hills and Others 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...

Anne B. Thompson, Everyday Saints and the Art of Narrative in the South English Legendary (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003). xii + 224 pp.; 1 plate. ISBN 0-7546-3293-8. 45.00 [pounds sterling]. As Anne Thompson's appendix reminds us, the original purpose and production of the...

Everyday Saints and the Art of Narrative in the 'South English Legendary'. By Anne B. Thompson. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. 2003. xii+224 pp. 45 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-7546-3293-8. The thirteenth-century South English Legendary (SEL) is not often taught, perhaps because spellings...