Cross of Snow – A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Nicholas Basbanes, Knopf (Borzoi Books) I pegged Nick Basbanes as a winner 50 years ago when he began writing book reviews for the Telegram. He ...

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The American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was world-famous in his lifetime, and poems such as "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Village Blacksmith" and "Hiawatha" may still be known by ...

YOUTH never forgets the earliest vision of the gracious presence which glorified its opening day. The impression of it deepens with years, and is at no time so vivid as in late life, when new ...

Paul Revere’s Ride, The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline are among American poet and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s most famous works. American poet and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ...

One hundred years ago, Feb. 27 was enlivened by events around the nation commemorating what had happened 100 years before that, in 1807. But last week's bicentennial of the birth of Henry Wadsworth ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Charles McGrath CROSS OF SNOW A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow By Nicholas A. Basbanes ...

"HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. A Biography, by W. Sloane Kennedy. Moses King, Cambridge, Mass., Publisher." Of the many books that have been offered as biographies of the late Henry W. Longfellow, in ...

In generations past, what child did not memorize “Listen, my children, and you shall hear/Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere” and other stirring lines from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 19th -entury ...