Songs of a year : collection of poems for every month of the year, each poem being by a different author, 1879?

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Songs of a year : collection of poems for every month of the year, each poem being by a different author, 1879?

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Ms. poems, mounted, with portraits of most of the authors, collected by Mrs. Ella (Farman) Pratt for the "Children's Almanac for 1879-81." Original letters and ms. poems by Whittier, Longfellow, etc.

1 v. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.

Brown University Archives, John Hay Library

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Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892

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John Greenleaf Whittier was a wildly popular New England poet. A deeply committed and active abolitionist, he wrote many of his poems with a political agenda, although distinguished by an open-minded tolerance so often lacking in his fellow abolitionists. Although his works are somewhat marred by overtly political and overly sentimental works, the core of his output stands as fine, lyrical American verse. From the description of John Greenleaf Whittier letters, 1858 and 1876. (Pennsy...

Pratt, Ella Farman, 1837-1907

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Thaxter, Celia (Laighton), 1835-1901.

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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882

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Poet, from Cambridge (Middlesex Co.), Mass. From the description of Papers, 1859-1874. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19903002 American author and poet. From the description of A psalm of life, fourth verse, 1850. (Maine Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 274069802 American teacher, translator, and poet. From the description of Letter, Nahant, Mass., to Mrs. T.B. Lawrence, Newport, 1872 July 20. (Boston Athenaeum...