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In a poem based on an actual event, this author described a captain who was “tarred and feathered and carried in a cart / by the women of Marblehead.” In one of this author’s poems, a woman worn down by “child-birth pain” imagines a manly form by her side and that “joy was duty and love was law.” This author wrote that “When faith is lost, when honor dies, / The man is dead” in a poem (10[1])attacking a politician. In a poem about an encounter between a judge and a country girl, (10[1])this author claimed that the saddest words are “it might have been.” (10[1])An old woman in a poem by this author shouts, “Shoot, if you must, this old gray head” while waving an American flag over Stonewall Jackson’s troops. For 10 points, name this 19th-century American poet of “Maud Muller” and “Barbara Frietchie.” ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: John Greenleaf Whittier (The first poem is “Skipper Ireson’s Ride.” The third poem is “Ichabod” about Daniel Webster.)
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