This short biography of John Greenleaf Whittier, published in 1917, was part of the Poetry and Life series, combining biography and poetry to present a fully rounded portrait of its subject. Hudson was of the opinion that Whittier “was not a great poet… He produced nothing on a large scale which is in the least likely to survive.” However, Hudson believed Whittier’s brilliance was his pure truthfulness in poetry.
About the author
William Henry Hudson (1862–1918) was a professor of English Literature at Stanford University and author of nonfiction, poetry, and fiction. His best remembered work,
The Famous Missions of California (1901), recounts the work of Father Junipero Serra and the twenty-one missions in California he founded. Sometimes confused with the British bird-lover naturalist and traveler, this William Henry Hudson wrote
The Sphinx and Other Poems (1900),
The Meaning and Value of Poetry (1901),
The Strange Adventures of John Smith (1902), and
The Man Napoleon (1915), among many other works.
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