Joan whittier biography

Arms, George.

The Fields Were Green: A New View of Bryant, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, and Longfellow; with a Selection of their Poems.

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Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1953.

This work is both an anthology and an overview of Whittier and his contemporaries. Like many who offer overviews of the poet’s work, Arms describes Whittier’s achievement in the context of his limitations as a poet. His view that Whittier manages only in a few poems to bring together a fit structure, a complex view of character, and control of narrative technique is then reflected in Arms’s strategy of analyzing closely only a few of Whittier’s poems, including Snow-Bound.

Cohen, Michael C.

“Whittier, Holmes, Lowell, and the New England Tradition.” In The Cambridge History of American Poetry. Edited by Alfred Bend