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 Examining his unpublished papers alongside letters written by his fans at home and abroad, Irmscher offers a fresh view of the poet's connection with his audience.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 down social and linguistic barriers. For Longfellow, the poet was less Emerson's "liberating god" than a distributor of cultural goods democratically shared by authors and readers alike. Longfellow Redux is the first book-length study of Longfellow's poetry since 1966 and contains numerous illustrations, including previously unpublished pencil sketches by Longfellow himself.
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"A friendly and readable scholarly book about Longfellow, which seeks to introduce a cosmopolitan and democratically multicultural Longfellow for our time." Times Literary Supplement "One of the most important books on Longfellow ever written. With impeccable scholarship, Christoph Irmscher brings us along on a captivating journey across the broad range of Longfellow's truly complex body of work... Irmscher does what many readers in and out of academia might have thought improbable: he makes Longfellow exciting." Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club and editor of Dante's Inferno: The Longfellow Translation "Irmscher's enthusiasm for his subject is infectious... Readers are likely to be both charmed and edified. As this book makes clear, Longfellow has much to teach us about how poetry can matter to people outside the academy." New England Quarterly "Succeeds splendidly in giving us appreciatory access to Longfellow's clear and coherent understanding of himself as a poet, and provides illuminating readings of numerous poems... Irmscher's highly readable, richly detailed, masterly restoration of Longfellow is more than welcome." Partial Answers
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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 Examining his unpublished papers alongside letters written by his fans at home and abroad, Irmscher offers a fresh view of the poet's connection with his audience.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 down social and linguistic barriers. For Longfellow, the poet was less Emerson's "liberating god" than a distributor of cultural goods democratically shared by authors and readers alike. Longfellow Redux is the first book-length study of Longfellow's poetry since 1966 and contains numerous illustrations, including previously unpublished pencil sketches by Longfellow himself.
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On August 22, 1879, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was standing at the front door of Craigie House, his residence on Brattle Street in Cambridge, enjoying the morning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Houghton Library, Harvard University, Peter Piper, New York, Voices of the Night, New England, United States, Divine Comedy, Peter Quince, The Children's Hour, Toni Toscan, Craigie House, Sir Christopher, Charles Sumner, Wayside Inn, Lord Byron, Mark Twain, Childe Harold, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Little Merrythought, Miss Crannell, Newton Arvin, North American Review, Fanny Fern, George Washington Greene New!
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On August 22, 1879, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was standing at the front door of Craigie House, his residence on Brattle Street in Cambridge, enjoying the morning. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dun voyageur, literary originality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Houghton Library, Harvard University, Peter Piper, New York, Voices of the Night, New England, United States, Divine Comedy, Peter Quince, The Children's Hour, Toni Toscan, Craigie House, Sir Christopher, Charles Sumner, Wayside Inn, Lord Byron, Mark Twain, Childe Harold, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Little Merrythought, Miss Crannell, Newton Arvin, North American Review, Fanny Fern, George Washington Greene New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri on 12 pages
- The Song of Hiawatha (Everyman's Library (Paper)) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on 9 pages
- Leaves of Grass (Bantam Classics) by Walt Whitman on 8 pages
- The Innocents Abroad (Dover Value Editions) by Mark Twain on 7 pages
- Tales of a Wayside Inn by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on 6 pages
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- Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life by Charles C. Calhoun in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Creating Portland: History and Place in Northern New England (Revisiting New England) by Joseph Conforti on page 88
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