Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Nicholas A. Basbanes

Book Overview

A major literary biography of America's best-loved nineteenth-century poet, the first in more than fifty years, and a much-needed reassessment for the twenty-first century of a writer whose stature and celebrity were unparalleled in his time, whose work helped to explain America's new world not only to Americans but to Europe and beyond. From the author of On Paper (Buoyant--The New Yorker; Essential--Publishers Weekly), Patience...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101875143
• ISBN13: 9781101875148
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.7" x 9.4"