John Greenleaf Whittier was born in 1807 to a Quaker family in Massachusetts. Wittier was an advocate of justice, tolerance and liberal humanitarianism. A friend of William Lloyd Garrison, Henry Wardsworth Longfellow and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Whittier is most famously known for his word “Snow-Bound”. Whittier, a Fireside poet, was part of the Romanticism movement in America. His works included ideas of religion, nature and rural life. His poem, “At Eventide”, written in 1878, is a reminiscent poem telling those who read it that while life isn’t always wonderful, goodness will always overcome; everyone must make the most of the life they are given.
