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"In the first biography of Longfellow in almost fifty years, Charles C. Calhoun seeks to solve a mystery: Why has one of America's most famous writers fallen into such oblivion? Can we truly understand nineteenth-century America if we ignore someone whose words were on everyone's lips - and who even today remains, in Dana Gioia's words, "the one poet average, non-bookish American's still know by heart"?" "Drawing on unpublished Longfellow family papers, Calhoun shows how the young poet blends the Federalist politics and Unitarianism of his parents' generation with the German romanticism he…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2005Beacon Press · 317 pages · 9780807070390
- Other · English · 2004Beacon Press · 317 pages · 9780807070260
Poètes américainsBiographiesCritique et interprétationAmerican PoetsBiographyLongfellow, henry wadsworth, 1807-1882Poets, biography