THE EXILES: A TALE OF NEW ENGLAND. AN "ORIGINAL POEM" PRINTED IN 'THE NEW WORLD,' NEW-YORK, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1841
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- New York: Park Benjamin, Editor, 1841
New York: Park Benjamin, Editor, 1841. Huge elephant folio sheet, folded to [4] pages, each page printed in eight columns. Engraved masthead. Whittier's poem is printed in about one-and-a-half columns. Several significant and unsightly blotches on each page; one of them touches a small portion of the Whittier poem but does not affect legibility. Some blank margin chips. Good.
"Not far from the Whittier home in Amesbury, MA, was the Macy House, about which Whittier wrote one of his first poems on Quaker persecution. The poem was published in a gift book: The North Star: The Poetry of Freedom, by her friends. 'The Exiles' is about Thomas Macy, who was driven from Amesbury for sheltering a Quaker" [online article, Whittier as Quaker, at appsprod.northshore.edu]. BAL records an 1840 publication date.
BAL 21716.
"Not far from the Whittier home in Amesbury, MA, was the Macy House, about which Whittier wrote one of his first poems on Quaker persecution. The poem was published in a gift book: The North Star: The Poetry of Freedom, by her friends. 'The Exiles' is about Thomas Macy, who was driven from Amesbury for sheltering a Quaker" [online article, Whittier as Quaker, at appsprod.northshore.edu]. BAL records an 1840 publication date.
BAL 21716.