Excerpt from Whittier's "Snow-Bound" A Study and Interpretation Snow-bound was written nearly half a century ago by John Greenleaf Whittier, the Quaker farmer-poet Of New England. Mr. Whittier was fifty-nine years 01 age when he wrote the poem, and in it he gives an account of the doings Of his own family, in his own home, during a certain stormy week in December when he was a boy probably not more than sixteen years of age. And where was this farm home located? Notice (see map) the narrow, crooked strip Of Massachusetts lying north of the Merrimac River after it crosses the New Hampshire line and turns to the eastward. This three-mile-wide strip, we are told by Mr. Pickard, was the poet's home during his entire life; and in its soil, in the Quaker cemetery at Amesbury, he, with the rest Of the snow-bound household, lies buried. This is the Whittier country, the snow-bound country When Mr. Whittier wrote the poem he was living at Amesbury, his home during the last fifty-six years Of his life. The farm home about which he was writing was only nine miles away, to the southeast, near a road run ning between Amesbury and Haverhill. On this farm the poet was born, and there he lived until he was twenty-nine years Old, when the family removed to Amesbury. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.