John Greenleaf Whittier

Barbara Frietchie

Narrative poem celebrating a woman's patriotic flag-waving during the American Civil War

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John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier

American Quaker poet and abolitionist whose Snow-Bound is a classic evocation of New England rural life. He was an important antislavery journalist before turning to poetry.

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