| Description |
xxxii, 538 pages : portrait ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Text of the Cambridge ed. of 1894, which was edited by H.E. Scudder, and published under title: The complete poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier. |
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Includes indexes. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Contents |
Proem ; Narrative and legendary poems: Includes: The bridal of Pennacook -- The chapel of the hermits -- Maud Muller -- Skipper Ireson's ride -- Telling the bees -- Mabel Martin: a harvest idyl -- The preacher -- Among the hills -- Miriam -- The Pennsylvania pilgrim -- John Underhill ; Poems of nature: Includes: The last walk in Autumn ; Personal poems: Includes: Ichabod ; Occasional poems: Includes: The Quaker alumni ; The tent on the beach. |
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Anti-slavery poems: Includes: The slave-ships -- The Yankee girl -- The hunters of men -- Massachusetts to Virginia -- The panorama -- In war time -- After the war -- Songs of labor and reform: Includes: Songs of labor ; Poems subjective and reminiscent: Includes: The barefoot boy -- My psalm -- Snow-bound ; Religious poems: Includes: The eternal goodness ; At sundown: Includes: The captain's well ; Poems by Elizabeth H. Whittier ; Appendix: Early and uncollected verses -- Poems printed in "The life of Whittier." |
| Summary |
Collects all the verse of the Massachusetts-born poet whose humanitarianism and great popular appeal established him as an important 19th-century figure. |
| Subject |
Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892.
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Poetry.
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American poetry.
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Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892 (OCoLC)fst00052143
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01067691
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| Added Title |
Poems
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892. Poems. Poetical works of Whittier. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1975 (OCoLC)643684368 |
| ISBN |
0395215994 |
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9780395215999 |
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