John Greenleaf Whittier’s Poetry : An Appraisal and a Selection.
Title:
John Greenleaf Whittier’s Poetry : An Appraisal and a Selection.
Author:
Warren, Robert Penn.
ISBN:
9780816664863
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (221 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Biographical Summary -- John Greenleaf Whittier: Poetry as Experience -- Suggested Readings -- Massachusetts to Virginia -- Song of Slaves in the Desert -- Randolph of Roanoke -- To My Sister -- Ichabod -- To My Old Schoolmaster -- First-Day Thoughts -- Trust -- Maud Muller -- Letter from a Missionary -- The Barefoot Boy -- The Panorama -- Mary Garvin -- The Last Walk in Autumn -- The Garrison of Cape Ann -- Skipper Ireson's Ride -- Telling the Bees -- The Pipes at Lucknow -- The Prophecy of Samuel Sewall -- The Double-Headed Snake of Newbury -- My Playmate -- "Ein Feste Burg 1st Unser Gott" -- Monadnock from Wachuset (from Mountain Pictures) -- Barbara Frietchie -- The Vanishers -- Laus Deo! -- Snow-Bound -- Abraham Davenport -- The Hive at Gettysburg -- Prelude (from Among the Hills) -- In School-Days -- The Pressed Gentian -- Conductor Bradley -- At Last -- Abram Morrison -- On the Big Horn.
Abstract:
In this volume Robert Warren Penn, the noted critic, poet, and novelist, provides a major new appraisal of the once enormously popular New England port, John Greenleaf Whittier, along with his selection of 36 of Whittier's poems. Through Warren's perceptive and illuminating discussion, the significance of Whittier as a writer for our time becomes clear. In his introduction Warren shows that Whittier's deep commitment to his fellowman, especially his devotion to the cause of abolition, profoundly influenced his writing. In his estimate of Whittier's place in literature, Warren invokes the questions What does the past mean to an American? and in this context he compares Whittier with Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, and Faulkner. He finds that Whittier's "star belongs in their constellation. If it is less commanding than any of theirs it yet shines with a clear and authentic light.".
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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