Longfellow’s fellow Atlantic founder John Greenleaf Whittier put a similar, though less historically accurate, myth to paper in “Barbara Frietchie,” from our October 1863 issue.

The film depicts the life of John Greenleaf Whittier, a Quaker poet from Massachusetts, who discovers his talent for poetry with the encouragement of his schoolmaster. Despite facing challenges ...

Newburyport poet Rhina Espaillat, along with the Powow River Poets, will present "John Greenleaf Whittier: A Voice for Our Time," which will consist of five Whittier poems with musical accompaniment.

Longfellow is distinctly the children’s poet; but Whittier had a part of their suffrages, and it was by such stirring occasional verses that he gained them. In those years of patriotism he was ...

These lines of verse, one of the 55 couplets of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "Maud Muller's Spring," convey the often-repeated underlying message: For of all sad words of tongue and pen/ The ...

John Greenleaf Whittier was a Quaker poet and abolitionist who never visited the town of Whittier. However, the Quaker founders of the town knew Whitter’s work and named the town out of respect ...

John Greenleaf Whittier best remembered for “Snow-Bound,’’ but fall offers the chance to explore a pair of Merrimack Valley shrines to the 19th-century poet.

In the '60s, he was known as the Poet Laureate of Freedom. The 1860s, that is. There are some striking parallels between John Greenleaf Whittier, the Massachusetts poet who was a household name ...