Identifier: homeschoolofamer00bird (find matches)
Title: Home school of American literature:
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Birdsall, William Wilfred, 1854-1909, (from old catalog) comp. and ed Jones, Rufus Matthew, 1863- (from old catalog) joint comp. and ed
Subjects: American literature English literature
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Elliott publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ses his charm,and, to scholars, his one defect. It has led him to write, as no other poet could,upon the dear simplicity of New England farm life. He has written from the heartand not from the head ; he has composed popular pastorals, not hymns of culture.Only such training as the district schools afforded, with a couple of years at Haver-hill Academy comprised his advantages in education. In referring to this alma mater in after years, under the spell of his muse, thepoet thus writes :— Still sits the school house by. the road,A ragged beggar sunning;Around it still the sumachs growAnd black-berry vines are running. Within, the masters desk is seen,Deep-scarred by raps official;The warping floor, the battered seats,The jack-knife carved initial. It was natural for Whittier to become the poet of that combination of whichGarrison was the apostle, and Phillips and Sumner the orators. His early poems werepublished by Garrison in his paper, The Free Press, the first one when Whittier 80
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)OHN G. WHITTIER, HIS HOME AND BIRTHPLACE.

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