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John Greenleaf Whittier: A sketch of his life, with selected poems

Chapter 3: NOTE
By Bliss Perry
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About This Book

The volume combines a concise biographical sketch of John Greenleaf Whittier with a curated selection of his poems. The life sketch traces his rural Quaker upbringing, the intellectual isolation of his youth, influences that shaped his commitment to social reform, and the development of his poetic voice. The poems are arranged to evoke stages of his career: boyhood and home life, political and social struggle, and a later mood of devout reflection. Together the biography and poetry illuminate how personal experience and moral conviction informed his verse.

CONTENTS

JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER:
A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE		 1
   
   
SELECTED POEMS  
   
THE BAREFOOT BOY (1855) 37
   
IN SCHOOL-DAYS (1870) 40
   
THE WHITTIER FAMILY. (FROM “SNOW-BOUND”) (1866) 42
   
MY PLAYMATE (1860) 54
   
TELLING THE BEES (1858) 57
   
BURNS: ON RECEIVING A SPRIG OF HEATHER IN BLOSSOM (1854) 60
   
THE SHIP-BUILDERS (1846) 65
   
SKIPPER IRESON’S RIDE (1857) 68
   
MAUD MULLER (1854) 72
   
RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE (1833?) 78
   
MASSACHUSETTS TO VIRGINIA (1843) 83
   
THE PINE-TREE (1846) 87
   
ICHABOD (1850) 89
   
THE LOST OCCASION (1880) 91
   
BARBARA FRIETCHIE (1863) 94
   
LAUS DEO! (1865) 98
   
ON RECEIVING AN EAGLE’S QUILL FROM LAKE SUPERIOR (1849) 100
   
MY PSALM (1859) 104
   
THE ETERNAL GOODNESS (1865) 107
   
AT LAST (1882) 110

NOTE

The frontispiece portrait of Whittier is from a miniature by Porter, painted about 1838. The portrait which faces page 36 is from an ambrotype taken about 1857. Both the miniature and ambrotype are in the possession of Samuel T. Pickard, Amesbury, Mass.