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In The New Yorker, James Marcus reviews Nicholas Basbanes’s new biography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In his heyday, his fame rivaled the Queen of England: On March 26, 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson ...

Cross of Snow – A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Nicholas Basbanes, Knopf (Borzoi Books) I pegged Nick Basbanes as a winner 50 years ago when he began writing book reviews for the Telegram. He ...

The American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was world-famous in his lifetime, and poems such as "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Village Blacksmith" and "Hiawatha" may still be known by ...

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 ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was far more than the old-fashioned and “white-bearded Fireside Poet” of popular memory, writes cultural historian Basbanes (On Paper) in this illuminating ...

In his journal on August 2, 1848, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, "We drove to Stockbridge ... Passed an hour at the Oxbow. What a lovely place! On three sides shut in by willow and alder hedges and ...

Nicholas A. Basbanes of North Grafton has received Nonfiction Honors from the 21st Annual Massachusetts Book Awards for his biography "Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow." The awards ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. During the mid-nineteenth century, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow enjoyed phenomenal popularity as a poet. His commercial ...