Show RANKED WITH GREAT POETS john greenleaf Grcen leaf whittier has ha written his name among the immortals immortal of the earth john greenleaf whittier one ot of the best loved and most famous ot of american can poets and perhaps the most or nr dent abolitionist known to united states history was born december 17 near haverhill mass he was apprenticed to journalism and became an editor at the early age ot of twenty two lie ile held various editorial positions and throughout his life devoted himself hin iselt to the writing of both prose and poetry having oo no doubt a deep inspiration la ID that he belonged to the same age that gave emerson and longfellow to amer lea and tennyson and the brownings to england with such as his contemporaries por aries arles whittier whittler being himself blessed with natural talents could do no less than what he did in literature whittier however hoi Never Is better known to fame because of his poems ula ills prose Is not so exalted though true lre lie wrote my aly psalm barclay ot of ury barbara FrIetch le at sundown and various other wonderful poems lie ile lived to be eighty five years old dying peacefully september 7 1802 |