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

Name: John Greenleaf Whittier: A sketch of his life, with selected poems
Author: Bliss Perry

by Bliss Perry, John Greenleaf Whittier

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Description

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

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Language

Duration

~1 hours (104K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United States: Houghton Mifflin and company, 1907.

Credits

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.

Subjects

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

About the authors

Bliss Perry

1860–1954

A longtime literary editor, teacher, and essayist, he helped shape American reading culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His writing ranges from criticism and biography to reflections on literature, nature, and everyday life.

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John Greenleaf Whittier

1807–1892

A leading 19th-century American poet, he brought warmth, plainspoken feeling, and strong moral conviction to both his verse and public life. His work is especially remembered for its New England settings and for poems that stood firmly against slavery.

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