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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
John Greenleaf Whittier
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

John Greenleaf Whittier

Haverhill, Massachusetts, 1807 - 1892, Hampton Falls, New Hampshire
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BiographyThe 1866 publication of his long poem Snow-Bound brought John Greenleaf Whittier popular acclaim and financial security. But literary success was of secondary importance to him: his priorities were dictated by his Quaker faith and his courageous battle against slavery. Whittier was born and raised on a farm near Haverhill, Massachusetts, and felt a strong kinship throughout his life with the hard-working, rural poor. Poetry Foundation https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/john-greenleaf-whittier Accessed 12/10/2018
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