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- Title: John Greenleaf Whittier's Civil war.
- Author : Modern Age
- Release Date : January 22, 2005
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 166 KB
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THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA recently issued a volume of the poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier. This is fitting. While he will never be placed in the first rank of poets and even his admirers admit that he authored much dismissible verse, Whittier, who enjoyed wide, trans-Atlantic fame in his lifetime and whose eightieth birthday was a national event, has earned a lasting place in American letters. He can justifiably be called our "best religious poet," as one critic named him, and hymns adapted from his poems are still sung in many Protestant churches today. He is also the author of a number of memorable narrative poems, ballads, and lyrics. Since he is possibly best known as an Abolitionist, it can come as a surprise to learn that during the Civil War years and their immediate aftermath, Whittier, in his maturity as both a man and a poet, is no longer writing the fiery verse propaganda in support of the cause that marked much of his earlier career, but has for some time been composing out of deeper inspiration and greater poetic resonance. His other poetic subjects apart from slavery--legend, history, nature, the past, and especially the spiritual life--come more to the fore, and even the poems he does write on the events of the day are often more skillful and fashioned with a broader scope.
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