Definition of John Greenleaf Whittier

1. Noun. United States poet best known for his nostalgic poems about New England (1807-1892).

Exact synonyms: Whittier
Generic synonyms: Poet

Lexicographical Neighbors of John Greenleaf Whittier

John Duns Scotus
John Eccles
John Edgar Hoover
John Edward Masefield
John Endecott
John Endicott
John Ernst Steinbeck
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
John Fletcher
John Florio
John Ford
John Foster Dulles
John Galbraith
John Galsworthy
John Glenn
John Greenleaf Whittier (current term)
John Griffith Chaney
John Haldane
John Hancock
John Hancocks
John Hanning Speke
John Harvard
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
John Heming
John Hemminge
John Henry
John Henry Newman
John Henry O'Hara
John Herschel
John Herschel Glenn Jr.

Literary usage of John Greenleaf Whittier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"LARCOM (Lucy), Wild Roses of Cape Ann and Other Poems: John Greenleaf Whittier, December 17, 1877.— LONGFELLOW, The Three Silences of Molinos. ..."

2. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1918)
"The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier. Complete ed. ... Poems of John Greenleaf Whittier. (With a note, biographical and critical, by Hope, Eva. ..."

3. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1895)
"John Greenleaf Whittier. BY BRANDER MATTHEWS. IN the town of Haverhill, Massachusetts, near the Merrimac River, not far from Salisbury Beach, and in a house ..."

4. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"The Eulogy : in the Haverhill Memorial of John Greenleaf Whittier. ... HOLMES, To John Greenleaf Whittier on his Eightieth Birthday. — »HOLMES. ..."

5. American Literature by Alphonso Gerald Newcomer (1906)
"John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807-1892 Another poet in whom love of human nature was a marked trait was born north of Boston in the same year as Longfellow— ..."

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