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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

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Whittier, the Quaker poet, was a "man of peace" but also "the poet militant." While his nonconformist religion demanded passive resistance in the physical arena, he was vigorous in opposition to slavery and the enemies of democratic principles. Born near Haverhill, Massachusetts, and educated at mostra'n més local schools, Whittier became editor of several country newspapers and in 1831 published his first book, Legends of New England in Prose and Verse. This was followed by a number of volumes of poetry, nearly 20 between 1836 and the outbreak of the Civil War, but a literary life was not uppermost in Whittier's mind during these turbulent years. Having been drawn into the antislavery movement by William Lloyd Garrison and others, Whittier became one of the most effective voices in the fight against slavery through his poetry and other writings. He himself said that he "set a higher value on his name as appended to the Anti-Slavery Declaration in 1833 than on the title page of any book." It has been said that his Voices of Freedom (1846), raised in the cause of abolition, was second only to Uncle Tom's Cabin in influencing the public against slavery. Following the war, Whittier felt free to turn his primary attention from politics to other themes and matters in his poetry, most successfully to the New England folk life that he had known so intimately during his years in rural Massachusetts and which is reflected in Among the Hills (1869). Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl (1866) is a long poem celebrating those rural values that Whittier had known in his youth but that were now vanishing before the industrial and urban forces that were transforming the American landscape and, some feared, character. In this, one of the most popular poems of nineteenth-century America, Whittier seeks in his personal past, as Robert Penn Warren pointed out, "not only a sense of personal renewal and continuity, but also a sense of the continuity of the new order with the American past." Other poems of high merit from these later years include "Abraham Davenport" (1866), the exquisite "Prelude" to Among the Hills (1868), and "In School-Days" (1870). 020 (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys

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Obres de John Greenleaf Whittier

Poems (1849) 222 exemplars
Snow-Bound (1866) 129 exemplars
Snowbound and Other Poems (1900) 46 exemplars
Barbara Frietchie (1965) 45 exemplars
Songs of three centuries (2006) 16 exemplars
Ballads of New England (1869) 8 exemplars
At sundown (1890) 8 exemplars
Old Portraits Modern Sketches (2014) 7 exemplars
Hazel Blossoms (1875) 7 exemplars
The Whittier Birthday Book (2012) 7 exemplars
Poems Selections 7 exemplars
Poems Volume II 5 exemplars
The Tent on the Beach (2017) 5 exemplars
Miriam : and other poems (1870) 4 exemplars
Child life in prose (2014) 4 exemplars
Mabel Martin : a Harvest Idyl (1876) 3 exemplars
Maud Muller (1866) 3 exemplars
The Poems of Whittier (1910) 3 exemplars
Poems ~ Vol. I 3 exemplars
Christmastide (2010) 3 exemplars
Poems of Whittier 3 exemplars
In War Time and Other Poems (1864) 3 exemplars
In War Time (1864) 2 exemplars
Religious Poems (2009) 2 exemplars
Poems By John G. Whittier (1893) 2 exemplars
The Pennsylvania Pilgrim (1872) 2 exemplars
The Poetical Works of Whittier (1888) 2 exemplars
Poems. Volume I 2 exemplars
Whittier Poetry 2 exemplars
The river path 2 exemplars
A Whittier Treasury (1903) 2 exemplars
Yankee Gypsies (2012) 2 exemplars
“Ichabod” 1 exemplars
Lilac from Whittier 1 exemplars
Songs of labor 1 exemplars
THE POEMS OF JOHN G. WHITTIER (1900) 1 exemplars
Early Poems Whittier (1880) 1 exemplars
Poems: Volume I 1 exemplars
Poems Volume I 1 exemplars
Poems of Whittier 1 exemplars
The Haunted House 1 exemplars
Jack in the Pulpit (1884) 1 exemplars
THE AMERICAN POETS 1 exemplars
A TENT ON THE BEACH 1 exemplars
The Mayflowers 1 exemplars
Poems from Whittier 1 exemplars
Home ballads and poems (2006) 1 exemplars
The Complete Works of Whittier (2009) 1 exemplars
Selected Poems (1925) 1 exemplars
The demon lady 1 exemplars
The American Poets 1 exemplars
Whittier day by day 1 exemplars
Whittier Speaks 1 exemplars
The King's missive. 1 exemplars
Lucretia Mott 1793-1880 (2010) 1 exemplars
Brilliants From Whittier (1900) 1 exemplars
Whittier in the Schools (1910) 1 exemplars
Home Ballads (2019) 1 exemplars

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what a great work to read on a cold December day
 
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betty_s | Sep 13, 2023 |
$150. First Edition 1866 Snow bound poem while Whittier was snow bound.
 
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susangeib | Hi ha 2 ressenyes més | Sep 10, 2023 |
This guy was a zealot on the right side of history. His abolitionist stance was based on his Biblical and Quaker roots. This book collects his poems from throughout his life including the political and war poetry. The highlight is Snow-bound, a slice of life in early 19th Century New England. Whittier’s rhyming poetry is remarkable, but he has fallen out of favor due to a movement away from hymn-like poems and less interest in the rural folk tales he often retells.
 
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BionicJim | Hi ha 5 ressenyes més | Apr 15, 2021 |

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