{"id":2114,"date":"2013-12-09T18:55:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T18:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2013-12-09T18:55:57","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T18:55:57","slug":"snow-bound-a-winter-idyl-is-featured-book-for-december-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/2013\/12\/09\/snow-bound-a-winter-idyl-is-featured-book-for-december-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow-bound: a Winter Idyl is Featured Book for December 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2115\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2115\" style=\"width: 284px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/128.226.136.91\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/Image0001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2115\" alt=\"Image0001\" src=\"https:\/\/128.226.136.91\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/Image0001.jpg\" width=\"284\" height=\"466\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/Image0001.jpg 790w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/Image0001-183x300.jpg 183w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/Image0001-625x1024.jpg 625w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/Image0001-768x1259.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/Image0001-450x738.jpg 450w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/Image0001-780x1279.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cover of Snow-Bound: A Winter Idyl.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Snow-bound: a winter idyl<\/em> by American poet John Greenleaf Whittier is the Special Collections featured book for December 2013. <em>Snow-bound<\/em> is a long narrative poem Which takes place in what is today known as the\u00a0John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead, which still stands in\u00a0Haverhill, Massachusetts.\u00a0The poem chronicles a rural New England family as a snowstorm rages outside for three days. Stuck in their home for a week, the family members exchange stories by their roaring fire.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2116\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2116\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/128.226.136.91\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/John.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2116\" alt=\"John\" src=\"https:\/\/128.226.136.91\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/John.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/John.jpg 1049w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/John-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/John-645x1024.jpg 645w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/John-768x1220.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/John-967x1536.jpg 967w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/John-450x715.jpg 450w, https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/12\/John-780x1239.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Engraving of John Greenleaf Whittier done by H.W. Smith from a photograph by Hawes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Whittier began the poem originally as a personal gift to his niece Elizabeth as a method of remembering the family.\u00a0Nevertheless, he told publisher\u00a0James Thomas Fields\u00a0about it, referring to it as &#8220;a homely picture of old New England homes&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0<i>Snow-Bound<\/i>\u00a0was first published as a book-length poem on February 17, 1866 and was, to Whittier&#8217;s surprise, financially successful.\u00a0By the summer after its first publication, sales had reached 20,000, earning Whittier royalties of ten cents per copy. He ultimately collected $10,000 for it.\u00a0Its popularity also led to the home depicted in the poem being preserved as a museum in 1892.\u00a0<sup id=\"cite_ref-3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Snow-Bound#cite_note-3\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>The 1866 edition of <em>Snow-Bound<\/em> is housed in the Binghamton University Libraries Special Collections located on the second floor of the Bartle Library (off of the North Reading Room).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2117\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2117\" style=\"width: 384px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2013\/12\/Whittier_House.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2117 \" alt=\"The Whittier homestead where Snow-Bound takes place is today preserved as it stands today.\" src=\"http:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/news\/specialcollections\/files\/2013\/12\/Whittier_House.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"288\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Whittier homestead where Snow-Bound takes place is today preserved as it stands today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snow-bound: a winter idyl by American poet John Greenleaf Whittier is the Special Collections featured book for December 2013. Snow-bound is a long narrative poem Which takes place in what is today known as the\u00a0John Greenleaf Whittier Homestead, which still stands in\u00a0Haverhill, Massachusetts.\u00a0The poem chronicles a rural New England family as a snowstorm rages outside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2114","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-books","7":"category-featured-book"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libnews.binghamton.edu\/specialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}