...er poets. From 1840 onward Whittier made Amesbury his home, although he allowed himself many protracted visits to friends and relatives, to Danvers and Newburyport, to the waters and mountains of New Hampshire , to Maine and the Isles of Shoals. From 1847 to 1860 he was associated, at long distance, with , a weekly paper published at Washington, and best remembered as the periodical in which was first gi...