His puritanical outlook led him to famously throw his copy of Leaves of Grass into a fire.
His puritanical outlook led him to famously throw his copy of Leaves of Grass into a fire. Writing poetry on a wide variety of themes, he based "The Garrison at Cape Ann" on an incident from Cotton Mather's Magnalia. Other poems of colonial life include the ballad "Skipper Ireson's Ride." He also wrote a novel, Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal, and Justice and Expediency, an anti-slavery tract. His other important poems include "Ichabod", which denounces Daniel Webster; "Telling the Bees"; "Kossuth" and "Maud Muller", where he writes that the saddest words are "It might have been." For 10 points, identify this Quaker poet of "Snowbound", and "Barbara Fretchie."
His puritanical outlook led him to famously throw his copy of Leaves of Grass into a fire.
John Greenleaf {Whittier}