One way to gain insight into someone’s psyche is to read what they wrote when they were 13. For Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, that’s his very first published poem, “The Battle of Lovell’s Pond,” which ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Author, Glenna Lang, Illustrator David R. Godine Publisher $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-87923-971-8 One of Longfellow's best known poems, a loving tribute to his three young ...
Strolling around Disneyland this summer, re-acquainting myself with Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh, Mister Toad, Simba, and so on, the following reflection occurred to me: that these strange imagined ...
The American poet who gave us Paul Revere's Ride and Hiawatha was born 200 years ago Tuesday. Fans of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are marking his birthday with readings, concerts, and "The Longfellow ...
Why Longfellow Lied: The Truth About Paul Revere’s Midnight Ride is a junior Non-Fiction book about Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, Paul Revere’s Ride. The ride took place at the beginning ...
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 ...
The beautiful Evangeline Oak in St. Martinville is immortalized in the epic poem 'Evangeline' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ...
Composer/pianist Michael Hoppé writes volumes of music, but he's not known for actually putting much of it down in black and white. He's a studio guy, he says, his faint English accent slipping in. He ...
(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 ...