Born of a December 17, John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892). Whittier is the fourth of the so-called Fireside Poets I have treated of here, the others being Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Cullen Bryant, and Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr). Longfellow was the most successful by far, and also the best remembered. There's certainly a reason Whittier falls […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:24AM on December 17, 2024