John Greenleaf Whittier: A sketch of his life, with selected poems

by Bliss Perry, John Greenleaf Whittier

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1:48:52

Description

"The occasion for this little volume is the celebration of the centenary of Whittier's birth"--Note.

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Houghton Mifflin and company, 1907.

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Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2022-01-19

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Source

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67202

Subjects

Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography American poetry -- 19th century Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 PS

About the authors

Bliss Perry

1860–1954

A longtime teacher, editor, and literary critic, he helped shape how American readers approached poetry and literature in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His career moved easily between the classroom, the magazine world, and a wide range of books on writers and reading.

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John Greenleaf Whittier

1807–1892

Remembered as both a poet and a reformer, he brought plainspoken warmth and moral conviction to 19th-century American literature. His best-known work, including Snow-Bound, helped make him one of the beloved Fireside Poets.

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