Show RANKED WITH GREAT POETS john greenleaf Ore whittier has ha written his name amon among the ile immortals immortal of the earth john Orect ilent whittler oneff one ot tile best loved and nd mst most famous ot of american poets poeta and perhaps port aps the most moat nr tir dent abolitionist knoop isnow to united states history was born december 17 near Ila mass blass ile he was apprenticed to journalism and became tin an editor nt at the early age of twenty two lie ile hold held various editorial posit positions ioni and throughout his life devoted himself to the writing of both prose and poetry having no doubt a n deep inspiration in that he belonged to the same age that gave karrson find longfellow to anier ten lan and tennyson and the brownings to england Rn Kland with such as his conte iu porn rles whittles Whittler belne being himself bless ed with natural talents could do no less than what lint he did in literature whittier however Is better known to tome fame because of his poems his prose Is not so exalted true lie wrote sly ity psalm barclay of 0 ury Barbi barbara tre frietchie FrIetch le at sundown sandown anti various other wonderful poems he ele lived to be eighty flie years old dying peacefully september 7 1802 |