John Greenleaf Whittier

About this eBook

Author

Kennedy, William Sloane, 1850-1929

Title

John Greenleaf Whittier: His Life, Genius, and Writings

Credits

Produced by Tor Martin Kristiansen, Carol Brown, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892

Category

Text

eBook-No.

37191

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37191

Release Date

August 24, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.John Greenleaf Whittier — His Life, Genius, and Writings
2. 2.BY W. SLOANE KENNEDY — Author of a "Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow," Etc. — REVISED AND ENLARGED
3. 3.INTRODUCTION.
4. 4.CONTENTS. — Part I.— Life. — Part II.— Analysis of His Genius and Writings. — Part III.— Twilight and Evening Bell. — APPENDIX.
5. 5.Part I. — LIFE.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. — ANCESTRY.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. — THE VALLEY OF THE MERRIMACK.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. — BOYHOOD. — WHITTIER'S BIRTHPLACE, NEAR HAVERHILL, MASS. — KITCHEN IN THE WHITTIER HOMESTEAD, HAVERHILL. — THE OLD SCHOOLHOUSE, HAVERHILL, MASS.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — EDITOR AND AUTHOR: FIRST VENTURES.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. — WHITTIER THE REFORMER. — JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER AT MIDDLE LIFE.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — AMESBURY. — THE WHITTIER HOUSE, AMESBURY, MASS.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. — LATER DAYS. — VIEW FROM THE PORCH AT OAK KNOLL, DANVERS, MASS.
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — PERSONAL.
14. 14.Part II. — ANALYSIS OF HIS GENIUS AND WRITINGS.
15. 15.CHAPTER I. — THE MAN. — Handwriting: John G. Whittier
16. 16.CHAPTER II. — THE ARTIST.
17. 17.CHAPTER III. — POEMS SERIATIM.
18. 18.CHAPTER IV. — THE KING'S MISSIVE.
19. 19.CHAPTER V. — POEMS BY GROUPS.
20. 20.CHAPTER VI. — PROSE WRITINGS.
21. 21.Part III. — TWILIGHT AND EVENING BELL.
22. 22.CHAPTER I. — TWILIGHT AND EVENING BELL. — THE GOVE HOUSE, HAMPTON FALLS, N. H., IN WHICH WHITTIER DIED. — (handwritten note)

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