Prepared for the centenary of Whittier’s birth in 1907, this short volume pairs a biographical sketch of the Quaker poet’s formative influences with a selection of his poems. They trace his Massachusetts farm boyhood in ‘The Barefoot Boy’ and ‘In School-Days’, his years in the antislavery struggle, and the devout calm of his old age.
A compact introduction to Whittier’s life and work by a noted Harvard critic and editor of the Atlantic. Download the free EPUB.