Show RANKED WITH GREAT POETS john greenleaf whittier ha has written his name among the immortal immortals of the earth john greenleaf Ore whittier one of the best beat loved and most famous of american amerlean poets and perhaps the most ardent abolitionist known to united states history was born december IT 17 near haverhill mass blass ne he was apprenticed to journalism and became an editor at the early age of twenty two he jae held various editorial positions and throughout his life devoted himself to the writing of both prose and poetry having no doubt a deep inspiration in that he belonged to the same age that gave emerson and longfellow to america and tennyson and the brownings to england with such as his contemporaries por aries arles whittier being himself blessed with natural talents could do no less than what be did to in literature whittier however Is better known to fame because of his poems ills his prose Is not so exalted though true lie ile wrote sly psalm barclay of ury barbara Frietch Friet clile le at sundown and various other wonderful poems oe ile lived to be eighty five years old dying peacefully september 7 1892 |