When I was growing up, there were four junior high schools in my hometown: Hawthorne, Whittier, Irving and Longfellow. They were all built in the 1920s and named in honor of what were then America’s ...
(Parts of this column were first published as an editorial in the York Daily Record/Sunday News at Christmas in 2014) American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote to a friend in 1863: “I have been ...
Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. On this day in 1775, patriots in Lexington and Concord fought the first ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is the perfect poet for our current moment. A master at what’s now called social networking, he commanded, at the height of his fame, a virtual empire of readers at home and ...
On Christmas day, 1863, the American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sat at his desk in his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts ...
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On Christmas day 1863, as his son recovered from his wounds, Henry penned the poem "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day," with ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In the nineteenth century, when poetry was a highly popular literary genre, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow rose to ...
Though Henry Wadsworth Longfellow never spent a night at the Wayside Inn, the 19th century bard's verse will resound through the Martha-Mary Chapel Sunday afternoon in dramatic readings of two of his ...
From 1822 to 1825, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow attended Bowdoin College, where he would become one of America's great poets. On a fine September morning in 1822 the fast stagecoach from Portland to ...
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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 ...
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