Longfellow Redux

by Christoph Irmscher

Book Overview

The time has come to take another look at Longfellow, America's most popular poet. Christoph Irmscher overturns the modern prejudice against Longfellow as the mere purveyor of literary comfort food. Examining his unpublished papers alongside letters written by his fans at home and abroad, Irmscher offers a fresh view of the poet's connection with his audience. Irmscher demonstrates that Longfellow saw literature as a transnational conversation breaking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025203063X
• ISBN13: 9780252030635
• Release Date: August 2006
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"