Author:John Greenleaf Whittier
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American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Brother of Elizabeth Hussey Whittier, poet.
John Greenleaf Whittier
WorksEdit
PoemsEdit
CollectionsEdit
- After the War
- Occasional Poems
- Personal Poems
- Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question In the United States (1837) (transcription project)
- Songs of Labor (1850) (external scan)
- Home Ballads and Poems (1860) (external scan)
- In War Time (1863) (external scan)
- The Tent on the Beach and Other Poems (1868) (external scan)
- The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and Other Poems (1872) (start transcription)
- Snow-Bound, Among the Hills, Songs of Labor, and Other Poems (1893; Riverside Literature Series) (external scan)
- The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier (1894)
- V. 1. Narrative and legendary poems (transcription project)
- V. 2. Poems of nature; Poems subjective and reminiscent; Religious poems (external scan)
- V. 3. Anti-slavery poems; Songs of labor and reform (external scan)
- V. 4. Personal poems; Occasinal poems; The tent on the beach(external scan)
- V. 5. Margaret Smith's journal; Tales and sketches(external scan)
- V. 6. Old portraits and modern sketches; Personal sketches and tributes; Historical papers (external scan)
- V. 7. The conflict with slavery: Politics and reform; The inner life; Criticism (external scan)
Works about WhittierEdit
Encyclopedia articlesEdit
- "Whittier, John Greenleaf," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
- "Whittier, John Greenleaf," by Edmund Clarence Stedman in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Whittier", by Edmund Clarence Stedman from Genius, and other essays (1911; piece excerpted from Encyclopædia Britannica: Tenth and "Whittier, John Greenleaf," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911))
Poems about WhittierEdit
- A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
- "For Whittier's Seventieth Birthday" (1877) by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "To Whittier on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday" (1882) by James Russell Lowell
- "Ad Vigilem" (1887) by Edmund Clarence Stedman
- "Whittier" (1913), a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1928, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.