Author:John Greenleaf Whittier

John Greenleaf Whittier
(1807–1892)

John Greenleaf Whittier

Works

Poems

• List of individual poems
• Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl (1866)

Collections of poetry

• After the War
• Occasional Poems
• Personal Poems
• Poems Written During the Progress of the Abolition Question In the United States (1837) (transcription project)
• Songs of Labor (1850) (external scan)
• Home Ballads and Poems (1860) (external scan)
• In War Time, and Other Poems (1863) (external scan)
• The Tent on the Beach and Other Poems (1868) (external scan)
• The Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and Other Poems (1872) (start transcription)
• Poems of Nature (1886), illustrated by Elbridge Kingsley
• Snow-Bound, Among the Hills, Songs of Labor, and Other Poems (1893; Riverside Literature Series) (external scan)
• The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier (1895) (transcription project)

Prose

• Yankee Gypsies
• The Boy Captives: An Incident of the Indian War of 1695

Correspondence

• Letter to Samuel Francis Smith (Oct. 18, 1888)

Collected works

• The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier (1894)
  • V. 1. Narrative and legendary poems (transcription project)
  • V. 2. Poems of nature; Poems subjective and reminiscent; Religious poems (external scan)
  • V. 3. Anti-slavery poems; Songs of labor and reform (external scan)
  • V. 4. Personal poems; Occasinal poems; The tent on the beach(external scan)
  • V. 5. Margaret Smith's journal; Tales and sketches(external scan)
  • V. 6. Old portraits and modern sketches; Personal sketches and tributes; Historical papers (external scan)
  • V. 7. The conflict with slavery: Politics and reform; The inner life; Criticism (external scan)

Works about Whittier

Encyclopedia articles

• "Whittier, John Greenleaf," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Whittier, John Greenleaf," by Edmund Clarence Stedman in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Whittier", by Edmund Clarence Stedman from Genius, and other essays (1911; piece excerpted from Encyclopædia Britannica: Tenth and "Whittier, John Greenleaf," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911))

Poems about Whittier

• A Fable for Critics (1848) by James Russell Lowell
• "For Whittier's Seventieth Birthday" (1877) by Oliver Wendell Holmes
• "To Whittier on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday" (1882) by James Russell Lowell
• "Ad Vigilem" (1887) by Edmund Clarence Stedman
• "Whittier" (1913), a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar