Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200

by Christoph Irmscher

The most popular American poet of his day, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was a multiculturalist before the term was invented. He passionately believed in the value of foreign travel and conceived of American literature as deeply "transatlantic." A polyglot poet-scholar, the first American to translate Dante's entire Divine Comedy, he was also a hands-on, unconventional father who produced numerous Edward Lear-like drawings for...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558495843
• ISBN13: 9781558495845
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher