Life and Letters of John Greenleaf Whittier
Author : Samuel Thomas Pickard
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : Samuel Thomas Pickard
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 1969
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Author : John Greenleaf Whittier
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Page : 344 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 1900
Category : American poetry
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Author : John Greenleaf Whittier
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Page : 452 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 1892
Category : American poetry
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Author : John Greenleaf Whittier
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Page : 58 pages
File Size : 41,66 MB
Release : 1867
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Author : John Greenleaf Whittier
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674528307
These letters of a man deeply concerned about his country, directly involved in political action, and torn, as the Civil War approached, by the conflict between his abolitionist zeal and his Quaker pacifism--letters here collected for the first time and many of them hitherto unpublished--shatter the stereotype of Whittier as "the good gray poet." The many letters to such figures as John Quincy Adams, Charles Sumner, and William Lloyd Garrison form a detailed record of the abolitionist movement from its inception to its merging with the Free Soil party in the 1850s. The first two volumes reproduce all the extant letters from 1828 to 1860, with full annotations. The last volume is selective, excluding several thousand perfunctory items and including only the historically or biographically interesting letters of the last three decades of the poet's life.
Author : John Greenleaf Whittier
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1931082596
A beloved figure in his own era——a household name for such poems as “Barbara Frietchie” and “The Barefoot Boy”—John Greenleaf Whittier remains an emotionally honest, powerfully reflective voice. A Quaker deeply involved in the struggle against slavery (he was harassed by mobs more than once) he enlisted his poetry in the abolitionist cause with such powerful works as “The Hunters of Men,” “Song of Slaves in the Desert,” and “Ichabod!”, his mournful attack on Daniel Webster’s betrayal of the anti-slavery cause. Whittier’s narrative gift is evident in such perennially popular poems as “Skipper Ireson’s Ride” and the Civil War legend “Barbara Frietchie,” while in his masterpiece “Snow-Bound” he created a vivid, flavorful portrait of the country life he knew as a child in New England. “His diction is easy, his detail rich and unassuming, his emotion deep,” writes editor Brenda Wineapple. “And the shale of his New England landscape reaches outward, promising not relief from pain but a glimpse of a better, larger world.” About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.
Author : John Greenleaf Whittier
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Page : 584 pages
File Size : 29,81 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Poetry
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Collects all the verse of the Massachusetts-born poet whose humanitarianism and great popular appeal established him as an important 19th-century figure.
Author : John Greenleaf Whittier
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Page : 466 pages
File Size : 34,15 MB
Release : 1894
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Author : John Greenleaf Whittier
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Page : 166 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 1892
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Author : John Greenleaf Whittier
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Page : 46 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 1866
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