The Artistry of John Greenleaf WhittierUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1954 - 590 pages |
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abolitionist American appeal artistic background ballad meter Barbara Frietchie beauty belief Bible Byronic Cady and Clark color contrast Cotton Mather developed doctrine dramatic dream effect emotional England example expression feeling fiction final genre pieces girl give God's Goody Cole hymns I. A. Richards Ichabod idea imagery images imagination imagistic imitations inner light interest John Greenleaf Whittier Journal lines literary literature lives Longfellow lyric M. H. Abrams manner mature Merrimac mind mood moral N. P. Willis narrative nature passage peace phrases Pickard picture poem poet poetic praise Pray presentation prose pieces Puritan realistic religious repetition rhetorical rhythm romantic rural scene seen sense sentimental simple sketches Skipper slavery Snow-Bound song soul sound spiritual stanzas story style thee theme things thought tier's tion tone traditional truth ture Twa Sisters verse Whit Whittier's prose William Leggett wind words worship writing