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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)

Auteur de The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

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Whittier, the Quaker poet, was a "man of peace" but also "the poet militant." While his nonconformist religion demanded passive resistance in the physical arena, he was vigorous in opposition to slavery and the enemies of democratic principles. Born near Haverhill, Massachusetts, and educated at afficher plus local schools, Whittier became editor of several country newspapers and in 1831 published his first book, Legends of New England in Prose and Verse. This was followed by a number of volumes of poetry, nearly 20 between 1836 and the outbreak of the Civil War, but a literary life was not uppermost in Whittier's mind during these turbulent years. Having been drawn into the antislavery movement by William Lloyd Garrison and others, Whittier became one of the most effective voices in the fight against slavery through his poetry and other writings. He himself said that he "set a higher value on his name as appended to the Anti-Slavery Declaration in 1833 than on the title page of any book." It has been said that his Voices of Freedom (1846), raised in the cause of abolition, was second only to Uncle Tom's Cabin in influencing the public against slavery. Following the war, Whittier felt free to turn his primary attention from politics to other themes and matters in his poetry, most successfully to the New England folk life that he had known so intimately during his years in rural Massachusetts and which is reflected in Among the Hills (1869). Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl (1866) is a long poem celebrating those rural values that Whittier had known in his youth but that were now vanishing before the industrial and urban forces that were transforming the American landscape and, some feared, character. In this, one of the most popular poems of nineteenth-century America, Whittier seeks in his personal past, as Robert Penn Warren pointed out, "not only a sense of personal renewal and continuity, but also a sense of the continuity of the new order with the American past." Other poems of high merit from these later years include "Abraham Davenport" (1866), the exquisite "Prelude" to Among the Hills (1868), and "In School-Days" (1870). 020 (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins

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Œuvres de John Greenleaf Whittier

Poems (1849) 220 exemplaires
Snow-Bound (1866) 129 exemplaires
Snowbound and Other Poems (1900) 46 exemplaires
Barbara Frietchie (1965) 45 exemplaires
Songs of three centuries (2006) 16 exemplaires
Among the hills, and other poems (1869) 12 exemplaires
Whittier: The Laurel Poetry Series (1960) 11 exemplaires
At sundown (1890) 8 exemplaires
Ballads of New England (1869) 8 exemplaires
The Whittier Birthday Book (2012) 7 exemplaires
Old Portraits Modern Sketches (2014) 7 exemplaires
Hazel Blossoms (1875) 7 exemplaires
Poems Selections 7 exemplaires
Poems Volume II 5 exemplaires
The Tent on the Beach (2017) 5 exemplaires
Miriam : and other poems (1870) 4 exemplaires
Child life in prose (2014) 4 exemplaires
Christmastide (2010) 3 exemplaires
The Poems of Whittier (1910) 3 exemplaires
Poems of Whittier 3 exemplaires
Poems ~ Vol. I 3 exemplaires
Mabel Martin : a Harvest Idyl (1876) 3 exemplaires
Maud Muller (1866) 3 exemplaires
In War Time and Other Poems (1864) 3 exemplaires
Religious Poems (2009) 2 exemplaires
In War Time (1864) 2 exemplaires
Poems. Volume I 2 exemplaires
The river path 2 exemplaires
National Lyrics (Second Edition) (1866) 2 exemplaires
The Pennsylvania Pilgrim (1872) 2 exemplaires
Yankee Gypsies (2012) 2 exemplaires
The Poetical Works of Whittier (1888) 2 exemplaires
Whittier Poetry 2 exemplaires
Poems By John G. Whittier (1893) 2 exemplaires
“The Barefoot Boy” 2 exemplaires
A Whittier Treasury (1903) 2 exemplaires
Pennsylvania pilgrim 1 exemplaire
Songs of labor 1 exemplaire
Early Poems Whittier (1880) 1 exemplaire
The Mayflowers 1 exemplaire
Jack in the Pulpit (1884) 1 exemplaire
Poems and Selections 1 exemplaire
THE POEMS OF JOHN G. WHITTIER (1900) 1 exemplaire
A TENT ON THE BEACH 1 exemplaire
Poems: Volume I 1 exemplaire
Poems Volume I 1 exemplaire
THE AMERICAN POETS 1 exemplaire
Lilac from Whittier 1 exemplaire
“Ichabod” 1 exemplaire
Poems of Whittier 1 exemplaire
Selected Poems (1925) 1 exemplaire
The Complete Works of Whittier (2009) 1 exemplaire
Home ballads and poems (2006) 1 exemplaire
The demon lady 1 exemplaire
Poems from Whittier 1 exemplaire
The Haunted House 1 exemplaire
Whittier in the Schools (1910) 1 exemplaire
Brilliants From Whittier (1900) 1 exemplaire
Home Ballads (2019) 1 exemplaire
Whittier Speaks 1 exemplaire
The American Poets 1 exemplaire
Whittier day by day 1 exemplaire
Lucretia Mott 1793-1880 (2010) 1 exemplaire
The King's missive. 1 exemplaire
Biographical Material 1 exemplaire

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what a great work to read on a cold December day
 
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betty_s | Sep 13, 2023 |
$150. First Edition 1866 Snow bound poem while Whittier was snow bound.
 
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susangeib | 2 autres critiques | Sep 10, 2023 |
This guy was a zealot on the right side of history. His abolitionist stance was based on his Biblical and Quaker roots. This book collects his poems from throughout his life including the political and war poetry. The highlight is Snow-bound, a slice of life in early 19th Century New England. Whittier’s rhyming poetry is remarkable, but he has fallen out of favor due to a movement away from hymn-like poems and less interest in the rural folk tales he often retells.
 
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