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Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892We have 45 books for this author.
John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and forceful advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Life and workHe was born to John and Abigail at the rural homestead in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He grew up on the farm in a household with his parents, a brother and two sisters, a maternal aunt and paternal uncle, and a constant flow of visitors and hired hands for the farm. During the winter term, he attended the district school, and was first introduced to poetry by a teacher. Whittier was an activist all his life, although there is no record of him ever speaking in meeting, and, unlike some others who were Orthodox, he found time to engage in politics and championed abolitionism. Whittier became editor of a number of newspapers in Boston and Haverhill, as well as the New England Weekly Review in Hartford, Connecticut, the most influential Whig journal in New England. His first two published books were Legends of New England (1831) and the poem Moll Pitcher (1832). In 1838, a mob burned Whittier out of his offices in the antislavery center of Pennsylvania Hall in Philadelphia.[1] Highly regarded in his lifetime and for a period thereafter he is now remembered largely for the patriotic poem Barbara Frietchie, as well as for a number of poems turned into hymns, some of which remain exceedingly popular. Although clearly Victorian in style, and capable of being sentimental, his hymns exhibit both imagination and universalism of that set them beyond ordinary 19th century hymnody. Best known is probably Dear Lord and Father of Mankind taken from his poem The Brewing of Soma, but Whittier's Quaker thought is better illustrated by the hymn that begins: 
It also shows in his poem "To Rönge" in honour of Johannes Ronge, the German religious figure and rebel leader of the 1848 rebellion in Germany:
His words still reverberate today, particularly through his poem "Maud Muller" with its famous line: "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'" Whittier died at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, and is buried in Amesbury, Massachusetts. [citation needed] LegacyA bridge named for Whittier, built in the style of the Sagamore and Bourne Bridges spanning Cape Cod Canal, carries Interstate 95 from Amesbury to Newburyport over the Merrimack River. The city of Whittier, California, the community of Whittier, Alaska, the Minneapolis neighborhood of Whittier and the town of Greenleaf, Idaho were named in his honor. Both Whittier College and Whittier Law School are also named after him. In addition, an elementary school in Kenosha, Wisconsin is named Whittier School, as is one in Berkeley, California. Kenosha, built in 1927 as a two room school house, was expanded over the years and is currently one of the largest elementary schools in the Kenosha Unified School District. Whittier's hometown of Haverhill, Massachusetts has named many buildings and landmarks in his honor including J.G. Whittier Middle School, Greenleaf Elementary, and Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School. Whittier's family farm, John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead also called "Whittier's Birthplace" is now a historic site open to the public as is the John Greenleaf Whittier Home, his residence in Amesbury for 56 years. The alternate history story P.'s Correspondence (1846) by Nathaniel Hawthorne, considered the first such story ever published in English, includes the notice "Whittier, a fiery Quaker youth, to whom the muse had perversely assigned a battle-trumpet, got himself lynched, in South Carolina". The date of that event in Hawthorne's invented timeline was 1835. The small town of Greenleaf, Idaho is named in his honor. External links
Middle school in Oak park Illinois is named after Whitter. One of the three houses of Chelmsford High School (Massachusetts) is named after Whittier. References
Volume 1 The Whittier Bi-centennial Recording Project, featuring the poem "Snow-Bound" read by Michael Maglaras [1]
This biographical information was gathered from the John_Greenleaf_Whittier page, courtesy of the Wikipedia project. BooksAnti-Slavery, Labor and Reform, Complete From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and ReformAnti-Slavery Poems I. From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform Anti-Slavery Poems II. From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform Anti-Slavery Poems III. From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform At Sundown Part 5, from Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems Barbara Frietchie (Audio Book, human-read) The Boy Captives The Complete Works of Whittier The Conflict with Slavery, Part 1, from Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism Criticism, Part 4, from Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism The Frost Spirit and Others from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier Historical Papers, Part 3, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches The Inner Life, Part 3, from Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism Margaret Smith's Journal Part 1, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches Mountain Pictures and Others, from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier My Summer with Dr. Singletary Part 2, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches Narrative and Legendary Poems: Among the Hills and Others From Volume I., the Works of Whittier Narrative and Legendary Poems: Barclay of Ury, and Others From Volume I., the Works of Whittier Narrative and Legendary Poems: Bay of Seven Islands and Others From Volume I., the Works of Whittier Narrative and Legendary Poems: the Bridal of Pennacook From Volume I., the Works of Whittier Narrative and Legendary Poems, Complete Volume I., the Works of Whittier Narrative and Legendary Poems: Mabel Martin, a Harvest Idyl From Volume I., the Works of Whittier Narrative and Legendary Poems: Pennsylvania Pilgrim and Others From Volume I., the Works of Whittier Narrative and Legendary Poems: the Vaudois Teacher and Others From Volume I., the Works of Whittier Occasional Poems Part 3 from Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier Old Portraits, Part 1, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches Personal Poems, Complete Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems Personal Poems II Part 2, from Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems Personal Poems I Part 1, from Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems Personal Sketches and Tributes, Part 2, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches Poems in Wartime From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems, Complete Volume II., the Works of Whittier Reform and Politics, Part 2, from Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism Religious Poems, Part 1., from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier Religious Poems, Part 2., from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier Reminiscent Poems , from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier Snow Bound and Others, from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems Volume II., the Works of Whittier Snow-Bound A Winter Idyll Songs of Labor and Reform From Volume III., the Works of Whittier: Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform Tales and Sketches, Complete Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches Tales and Sketches Part 3, from Volume V., the Works of Whittier: Tales and Sketches The Tent on the Beach and Others Part 4, from Volume IV., the Works of Whittier: Personal Poems Yankee Gypsies |
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