21 Jul 2008
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) was born on a farm in Haverhill, Massachusetts. He was first introduced to poetry by a teacher and later forged a career in writing, where he became a newspaper editor in Boston, Haverhill and for the influential Whig journal New England Weekly Review in Connecticut. He was well-known and admired during his lifetime and is now remembered for the patriotic poem Barbara Frietchie as well as for many other poems that were turned into hymns. His style was Victorian, and although sentimental, his writing had universal appeal and was full of imagination.
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