John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems
(American Poets Project #10)
$34.18
- Hardcover
230 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2004
Summary
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 an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781931082594 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1931082596 |
| Author: | John Greenleaf Whittier |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 230 |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2004 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 120mm x 16mm |
| Series: | American Poets Project |
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“Whittier is an indispensable part of our poetic heritage… . As he matured, he sometimes put his strong Quaker beliefs in vital conflict with both the imagistic and hedonistic impulses of their brands of Romanticism. When he created such tension among his passions and responsibilities, the result was a beautiful, valiant pastoralism that one finds impossible to forget.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch
About The Author
John Greenleaf Whittier
Brenda Wineapple’s books includeEcstatic Nation- Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-1877,Hawthorne- A Life, andWhite Heat- The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, a Guggenheim fellowship, and a 2014 Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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