Show RANKED WITH GREAT POETS john greenleaf whittier cr has written his name among th the immortals of tho earth john greenleaf whittier one of the best loved and most famous of american can poets and perhaps the most ardent abolitionist known to united states history was born december IT near haverhill Baver hlll mass he ele was apprenticed to journalism lind and became an editor at the early age of twenty two ile he held various editorial positions and throughout his life devoted himself to t the e writing of both prose and poetry having no doubt a deep inspiration in that lie he belonged to the same age that 1 gave anva emerson and longfellow to america and tennyson and the brownings to england with such as his bontem poi arles whittier being himself blessed with natural talents could do no less than what lie he did in literature whittier however Is better known to fame because of his poems hig prose Is not so exalted though true rie ile wrote my psalm barclay of 0 ury dry barbara frietchie FrIetch le at sundown and various other wonderful poems ile de lived to he be eighty civo bears old dying peacefully september 7 |