Kennedy traces Whittier’s Quaker ancestry, his boyhood in the Merrimack valley, his first ventures as editor and poet, and his years as an abolitionist, before turning to the poems themselves. He finds love of freedom the key to the man. The Rev. S. F. Smith, author of the hymn “America,” introduces it.
A warm Victorian life of the poet of Snow-Bound, for readers of American poetry and abolition history. Download the free EPUB.