Snow-Bound (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: John Greenleaf Whittier
- First Published: 1866
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry, Pastoral, Elegy
- Subjects: Blizzards, Family or family life, United States or Americans, Nineteenth century, Rural or country life, New England, Farms, farmers, or farming, Winter
- Locales: Haverhill, MA
Generally considered Whittier's masterpiece, “Snow-Bound” is dedicated to “the Household It Describes” and prefaced by a quotation from the Renaissance occultist Cornelius Agrippa on the powers of sunlight and firelight over “Spirits of Darkness,” and a passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson's “The Snow Storm.” Whittier wrote this work of high nostalgia shortly after the death of his beloved sister, Elizabeth, who had long taken care of him. This carefully crafted genre piece opens with a long, elegiac description of a December day in New England and the chores performed on...
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