Author: John Greenleaf WhittierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Poems
Author: John Greenleaf WhittierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Snow-bound
Author: John Greenleaf WhittierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
John Greenleaf Whittier: Selected Poems
Author: John Greenleaf WhittierPublisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1931082596
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
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 anti-slavery cause. Whittier’s narrative gift is evident in such perennially popular poems as “Skipper Ireson’s Ride” and the Civil War legend “Barbara Frietchie,” while in his masterpiece “Snow-Bound” he created a vivid, flavorful portrait of the country life he knew as a child in New England. “His diction is easy, his detail rich and unassuming, his emotion deep,” writes editor Brenda Wineapple. “And the shale of his New England landscape reaches outward, promising not relief from pain but a glimpse of a better, larger world.” About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.
Maud Muller
Author: John Greenleaf WhittierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
At Sundown
Author: John Greenleaf WhittierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Religious Poems
Author: John Greenleaf WhittierPublisher: Book Jungle
ISBN: 9781438524993
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
One of the Fireside poets, John Greenleaf Whittier (1807 -1892) was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate for the abolition of slavery in the United States. After school Whitter worked as editor of the National Philanthropist, a Boston-based temperance weekly. In 1833 he published the pamphlet Justice and Expediency and dedicated the next 20 years to the slavery cause. Religious Poems, Part 2., from Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent and Religious Poems contains the following poems The Answer, The Eternal Goodness, The Common Question, Our Master, The Meeting, The Clear Vision, Divine Compassion, The Prayer-Seeker, The Brewing of Soma, A Woman, The Prayer of Agassiz, The Friend's Burial, A Christmas Carmen, and many more.
A People's Guide to Greater Boston
Author: Joseph NevinsPublisher:
ISBN: 0520294521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
"Herein, we bring you to sites that have been central to the lives of 'the people' of Greater Boston over four centuries. You'll visit sites associated with the area's indigenous inhabitants and with the individuals and movements who sought to abolish slavery, to end war, challenge militarism, and bring about a more peaceful world, to achieve racial equity, gender justice, and sexual liberation, and to secure the rights of workers. We take you to some well-known sites, but more often to ones far off the well-beaten path of the Freedom Trail, to places in Boston's outlying neighborhoods. We also visit sites in numerous other municipalities that make up the Greater Boston region-from places such as Lawrence, Lowell and Lynn to Concord and Plymouth. The sites to which we do 'travel' include homes given that people's struggles, activism, and organizing sometimes unfold, or are even birthed in many cases in living rooms and kitchens. Trying to capture a place as diverse and dynamic as Boston is highly challenging. (One could say that about any 'big' place.) We thus want to make clear that our goal is not to be comprehensive, or to 'do justice' to the region. Given the constraints of space and time as well as the limitations of knowledge--both our own and what is available in published form--there are many important sites, cities, and towns that we have not included. Thus, in exploring scores of sites across Boston and numerous municipalities, our modest goal is to paint a suggestive portrait of the greater urban area that highlights its long-contested nature. In many ways, we merely scratch the region's surface--or many surfaces--given the multiple layers that any one place embodies. In writing about Greater Boston as a place, we run the risk of suggesting that the city writ-large has some sort of essence. Indeed, the very notion of a particular place assumes intrinsic characteristics and an associated delimited space. After all, how can one distinguish one place from another if it has no uniqueness and is not geographically differentiated? Nonetheless, geographer Doreen Massey insists that we conceive of places as progressive, as flowing over the boundaries of any particular space, time, or society; in other words, we should see places as processual or ever-changing, as unbounded in that they shape and are shaped by other places and forces from without, and as having multiple identities. In exploring Greater Boston from many venues over 400 years, we embrace this approach. That said, we have to reconcile this with the need to delimit Greater Boston--for among other reasons, simply to be in a position to name it and thus distinguish it from elsewhere"--
Congregational Hymns from the Poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier
Author: Samuel J. RogalPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786457287
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Poet John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) proved a significant contributor to American Protestant hymnody--since 1843, more than 2,100 hymnals published in the United States have included adaptations of his works--despite the fact that Whittier never considered himself a hymnist. This book compares and contrasts Whittier's original published texts with versions adapted as hymns, exhibiting the hymnodic elements of his poetry and displaying the textual changes to Whittier's lines by hymnal editors from a variety of denominations. The work offers in-depth comparative studies of many of his poems and their resultant hymns, a catalogue of hymns-from-poems, a chronology of Whittier's life and works, notes, bibliography and index.
Ichabod
Author: John J. WhittemorePublisher:
ISBN: 9781424125920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The church was real special, like God was always there...his mom was always saying, Going to church was like going on top of a mountain and feeling Gods breeze blow all your troubles away What changed this to the point that Preacher Bernie Parsons believed the Glory of God was no longer present at Highland Hill Church? Read how this preachers confidence of knowing that God is close is jeopardized when he is impacted by a divorce issue, lying, adultery, and murder, all conducted within the boundaries of the church membership. How Reverend Parsons is confronted with these situations creates the pounding question in his mind whether or not Gods Glory is residing with them: has God written the name Ichabod over the church? The name Ichabod, taken from the old testament, poses a query, which asks where is the Glory, or states passively, the Glory has departed.
Author: John Greenleaf Whittier