Show RANKED WITH GREAT POETS john greenleaf whittler Gr has ha written his name amona the immortals immortal of the ahe earth john greenleaf whittier whistler one of the best loved arid most most famous ot of amer acau poets aud and perhaps the most or dent defit abolitionist known to united states history was born december 17 biear near mass he was apprenticed to journalism and became an editor at the early oge ego of twenty two he held various editorial positions and ahr throughout 0 his life devoted hi himself m to the writing of both prose and poetry having baving po no doubt a deep inspiration ln in th that athe ho belonged to t the tl 6 iame aget age that hiff gave emerson and longfellow I 1 ica and Teft tennyson hyson and the Browh brownings ings to io england with such stich as his congem contemporaries por aries whittler being himself blessed edilh ft aral talents could do no 6 1 less than the what wham he we did tn iii literature cyb whittler U pe ho however veyer Is I 1 s better cnown oarl to fame because of his poems hla tit prose Is not so exalted though true frue he wrote iliin my psalm ll 11 Bil barclay relay ot of cry barbara at sundown down and various other tb er wonderful poems ile he lived to be eighty flye five years old dying peacefully september 7 1892 |