Show RANKED WITH GREAT POETS john joha greenleif greenleaf whittler whittier H has written hit his name among the immortal immortals of the earth john greenleaf whittler whittier one of the best loved and most famous of amer kin poet poets and perhaps the most ar deat abolitionist known to united I 1 stites history was born december 17 I 1 ifor haverhill Haver hlll ala tie was alpren ilam to journalism and became an editor at the early age of twenty two be beheld held various editorial positions and throughout ahli life devoted himself to ft writing of both prose and poetry living DO no doubt a deep inspiration in tilt that be he belonged to the same age that pie emerson and longfellow to americ ka and tennyson and the Brownl drowning to england 11 alth ith such as his conte fortrie jor trie orles being befog himself bless td with ith natural talents could do no less thin what he did to in literature whittler hittler however Is ts better known to tame fm because cf ct his poems ilia prose Is not so exalted cill exil ted though true he H wrote my sty barclay of cry cr barbara Frietch le at san sun iowa own and various other wonderful poems lie lived to be eighty live idars old dying peacefully september t IM |