... the great leaders in American history. A humane, far-sighted statesman in his lifetime, he became a legend and a folk hero after his death. III. The nineteenth century romantics- A. The fireside poets 1. John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), American poet, born near Haverhill, Massachusetts, and largely self-educated. The young poet's earliest work attracted the attention of the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, editor of ... , in 1936. Her first book of poems, A Street in Bronzeville (1945), was praised by critics as a clear and moving evocation of life in an urban black neighborhood....

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