John Greenleaf Whittier
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Born December 17, 1807
Died September 7, 1892 (84 years old)
Haverhill, United States
Also known as: John Greenleaf, Whittier, John Greenleaf - Whittier
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An American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the Fireside Poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns (Wikipedia).
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The poetical works of Whittier
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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.
The poetry of the Negro, 1746-1970
Philippe Thoby-Marcelin, George Campbell, Herman Melville, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Kay Boyle, Pauli Murray, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Karl Jay Shapiro, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Nicolás Guillén, Henderson, Alice Corbin, Walt Whitman, Armand Lanusse, John Gould Fletcher, William Stanley Braithwaite, Aimé Césaire, William Rose Benét, George Moses Horton, Phillis Wheatley, Carl Sandburg, James Russell Lowell, Langston Hughes, John Greenleaf Whittier, Muriel Rukeyser, Frank Marshall Davis, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Selden Rodman, Léon-Gontran Damas, William Ellery Leonard, Stephen Vincent Benét, Fenton Johnson, Jean Toomer, James Weldon Johnson, DuBose Heyward, Claude McKay, William Wordsworth, Hart Crane, Elizabeth Bishop, Hervey Allen, Josephine Miles, Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ridgely Torrence, W. E. B. Du Bois, William Blake, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walter Adolphe Roberts, Witter Bynner, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jacques Roumain, Kenneth Patchen
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For other editions, see Author Catalog.
Barbara Frietchie
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An illustrated edition of the poem describing Barbara Fritchie's dramatic stand with the Union flag against the rebel troops invading her town.
At Sundown: By John Greenleaf Whitter ; with Designs by E.H. Garrett
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