The complete online text of Personal 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...

A liberal translation of the poetry of Michelangelo gives the artist's voice a contemporary, if often rather brusque, quality -- like 'stagings of Mozart operas in motorcycle leathers.' For Italian readers, the stature of Michelangelo as a poet remains subject to debate....

George Vafopoulos The Complete Poems Thom Nairn, Dionysia Zervanou, trs. Edinburgh. Dionysia. 2000. 360 pages ISBN 09522-341-4-9 GEORGE VAFOPOULOS (1903-96) may not have been as famous as his contemporaries Seferis, Elytis, and Ritsos, but he was certainly one of the foremost poetic...