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Show RANKED WITH GREAT POETS John Greenleaf Whittier Has Written' His Name Among the Immortals of the Earth. ,7ohn Greenleaf Whittier, one of the best loved and most famous of American Amer-ican poets, and, perhaps, the most ardent ar-dent abolitionist known to Dnlted States history, was born December 17 near Haverhill, Mass. He was apprenticed appren-ticed to journalism and became an editor ed-itor at the early age of twenty-two. De 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 Amer-ica and Tennyson and the Brownings to England. With such as his contemporaries contem-poraries Whittier, being himself blessed bless-ed with natural talents, could do no less than what he did in literature. Whittier, however. Is better known to fame because of his poems. Hia prose Is not so exalted, though true. He wrote "My Psalm," "Barclay of Ury." "Barbara Frletchie," "At Sundown" Sun-down" and various other wonderful poems. He lived to be eighty-five years old, dying peacefully September 7, 1S92. |