This book contains the AO selections for poetry, year 5, term three; John Greenleaf Whittier (Dunbar is in another volume). The contents are activated for Kindle for ease of use. We have also included the longer poems, such as Snowbound and Barefoot Boy. Snowbound has been divided into parts of regular equal size as a ehlp for those who wish to read it over a long period of time (recommended).
There is also a Kindle volume containing all four of the poets for AO year 5.
1807-1892
John Greenleaf Whittier was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.
Although he received little formal education, he was an avid reader who studied his father's six books on Quakerism until their teachings became the foundation of his ideology. Whittier was heavily influenced by the doctrines of his religion, particularly its stress on humanitarianism, compassion, and social responsibility.
Whittier produced two collections of antislavery poetry: Poems Written during the Progress of the Abolition Question in the United States, between 1830 and 1838 and Voices of Freedom (1846). He was an elector in the presidential election of 1860 and of 1864, voting for Abraham Lincoln both times.
The passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 ended both slavery and his public cause, so Whittier turned to other forms of poetry for the remainder of his life.
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