Book/Printed Material John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life
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Image 1 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 6 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER From a miniature by Porter about 1838- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 7 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life Qfye JiUfeergtDe JLitcrature Series JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER A 1 A SKETCH OF HI LIFE i BY BLISS PERRY WITH AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND OTHER POEMS BY WHITTIER HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY BoBton 4 Park...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 9 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life NOTE The occasion for this little volume is the celebration of the centenary of Whittier s birth. The sketch of his life aims to present the chief formative influences which affected his...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 10 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 11 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life CONTENTS JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER: A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE 1 SELECTED POEMS THE BAREFOOT BOY (18 55) IN SCHOOL-DAYS (1870) THE WHITTIER FAMILY. (FROM “SNOW-BOUND”) (1866) MY PLAYMATE (i860) TELLING THE BEES...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 12 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life CONTENTS LAUS DEO! (1865) 98 ON RECEIVING AN EAGLE’S QUILL FROM LAKE SUPERIOR (1849) 100 MY PSALM (1859) 104 THE ETERNAL GOODNESS (1865) 107 AT LAST (1882) 110 NOTE The frontispiece portrait...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 13 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 14 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life i u- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 15 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER The loneliness of the homestead in which Whittier was born, on December 17, 1807, has been described by the poet himself and em- phasized by his biographers. It is...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 16 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER other house is within sight or hearing. Even in summer the rural quiet is scarcely broken, and the wdnter landscape makes an almost sombre impression of physical seclusion. The intellectual isolation...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 17 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER the pulse of the great European movement of emancipation which has transformed, and is still transforming, our modern world. “My father,” he wrote afterwards, “was an old- fashioned Democrat, and really...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 18 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER poet, also of Quaker stock, afterward applied to himself wore their hats as they pleased, indoors and out. But the Whittiers were so used to quiet independence that it never oc-...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 19 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER of home affection and the endless pleasures of a boy’s life out of doors. “The Barefoot Boy,” “Snow-Bound,” and “In School-Days” tell the story more charmingly and with more truth than...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 20 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER time and place, that these poems written about his boyhood portray, with a vividness rarely equalled in our literature, not only a mode of outward life, but a type of thought...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 21 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER master-poet; and the poet, by some special gift of fortune, proved to be Robert Burns. The story of that revealing experience is familiar enough: how a “pawky” wandering Scotchman sang “Bonny...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 22 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER Mary thought good enough to be printed, and a poem which she sent surreptitiously to William Lloyd Garrison, the twenty-year-old editor of the “Newburyport Free Press,” was accepted and published on...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 23 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER publication of his poems by subscription had failed. His health seemed too frail for effect- ive farm labor. His ignorance of the classics, as well as his lack of funds, barred...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 24 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER ment was impoverished. That full-blooded life of the senses, which taught Burns and Goethe at fourteen such secrets of human rap- ture and dismay, was impossible for the Quaker stripling. He...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 25 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER “Knickerbocker,” Whittier declared: “It is very seldom that we find an article of poetry so full of excellent philosophy and common sense as the following. We know not who the author...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 26 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER his native town and county, and afterward throughout New England and the Eastern States, was singularly exact. He seemed to perceive, as by some actual visualization, how people were thinking and...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 27 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER compromise on non-essentials for the sake of bringing things to pass. The hand of a master is revealed in his published letters to Caleb Cushing and to Henry Clay. It was...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 28 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER weapons than one. Underneath all questions of policy, lay his inherited democratic sympathy with the ordinary man. At the height of his fame he loved to sit upon a cracker barrel...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 29 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER aware, he paused, like some knight who had lost his way in an enchanted forest. Then blew the clear unmistakable trumpet call which broke the spell and summoned him to action....- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 30 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER The spirit of Burns, years before, had whis- pered to the boy that he, too, had the poet-soul, yet facile versifying was all that had seemed to come of it, and...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 31 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER society. To-day we endeavor to exclude Anarchists from American soil; the leading Abolitionists, like the Russian Revolutionists of the present hour, preached Anarchy in the name of Humanity. Whittier, trained to...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 32 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER any book.” No words could better illustrate his devotion to the cause of the slave. Yet he did not surrender his right of private judgment as to the best means to...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 33 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER “National Era,” and other newspapers, were trenchant, caustic, and far-sighted. Invalidism and the care of his mother’s family kept him almost constantly at Amesbury, whither he had removed after the sale...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 34 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER The cause of negro emancipation in America to his mind only one phase of the struggle for a wider human freedom everywhere stirred and deepened his whole nature. There is scarcely...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 35 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER Street.” Such poems are class and party verse of the purest type. Whittier’s direct contact with the soil and his intense interest in localities made him also an unequalled interpreter of...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 36 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER over-severity in judgment of men and mea- sures, diffuseness of style, a faulty ear for rhymes, are frequently in evidence. Yet these blemishes scarcely affected the immediate value of Whittier’s verse...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 37 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER in 1825, to “Snow-Bound,” written just forty years later, is to watch the steady broadening and clarifying of Whittier’s, spirit. He found in the community of emotion wrought by a moral...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 38 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER He does not regret his choice, but there is some yearning over the lost Arcady. In the enforced leisure of his frequent invalidism Whittier read very widely, and legend and dreamy...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 39 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER in State Street” and “Le Marais du Cygne,” but rather “The Gift of Tritemius,” “Skipper Ireson’s Ride,” and “Telling the Bees.” In other words, it was as a man of letters...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss
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Image 40 of John Greenleaf Whittier; a sketch of his life WHITTIER favorite sister, the gifted Elizabeth, in 1864, thus leaving the Amesbury house desolate. The poet’s memories of his birthplace, only six miles away, but now in other hands, grew increasingly tender...- Contributor: Whittier, John Greenleaf - Perry, Bliss