Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Whittier” in chapter 1 of Bliss Perry, The American spirit in lierature: a chronicle of great interpreters:

...requently won the recognition and affection of their contemporaries by means of prose and verse quite unsuited to sustain the test of severe critical standards. Neither Longfellow's nor Poe's nor Whittier 's is among the best poems of the three writers in question, yet there was something in each of these productions which caught the fancy of a whole American generation. It expressed one phase of t...
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John Greenleaf Whittier 833 86 1 0 0 user votes
John G. Whittier 828 0 0 0 0 user votes
J. G. Whittier 316 0 0 0 0 user votes
Whittier 183 0 23 0 0 user votes
Elizabeth Whittier 151 0 1 0 0 user votes
Joseph Whittier 76 0 0 0 0 user votes
Thomas Whittier 36 0 0 0 0 user votes
John Whittier 28 0 0 0 0 user votes
Charles A. Whittier 19 0 7 0 0 user votes
Charles Albert Whittier 8 0 0 0 0 user votes
Francis Henry Whittier 8 0 0 0 0 user votes
Elizabeth H. Whittier 6 0 0 0 0 user votes
Horatio G. Whittier 6 0 0 0 0 user votes
Leonard S. Whittier 6 0 0 0 0 user votes
Ruel Whittier 6 0 0 0 0 user votes
F. H. Whittier 5 0 1 0 0 user votes
Charles H. Whittier 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
E. T. Whittier 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
Elizabeth Hussey Whittier 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
Mary Whittier 4 0 0 0 0 user votes
C. A. Whittier 3 0 1 0 0 user votes
Andrew J. Whittier 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
B. C. Whittier 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Edward N. Whittier 2 0 2 0 0 user votes
George Whittier 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
James L. Whittier 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Matthew Whittier 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Matthew Francis Whittier 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
O. W. Whittier 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Ruth Flint Whittier 2 0 0 0 0 user votes
Samuel C. Whittier 2 0 0 0 0 user votes

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