The complete online text of Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent 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...

"All great artists are in love with subject matter ..." -- John Marin The shadow on the shed in the shape of the tree's great arm describes the homely affection I feel for the lexicon of reds layered on old barns....

For lack of a better direction I steered us into the Biology of Invertebrates. We watched the way the spineless milky creatures grew luminous at night. Jellyfish hung--grassy, diaphanous-- a bluish squid pinned to the ceiling itching to...