Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Illustrated excerpts from Longfellow's poem of love, peace, and mankind's closeness with the natural world.

In 1860, the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow family celebrated Christmas at Craigie House, their home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The publication of Longfellow's classic Revolutionary War poem, "Paul Revere's Ride," was less than a month hence, and the country's grave political unrest weighed heavily on his mind. Yet with his beloved wife, Fanny, and their five adored children at his side, the delights of the season prevailed. In present-day Boston, a...

An illustrated selection of twenty-seven complete or excerpted poems by the renowned nineteenth-century New England poet. Also includes information about his life.

"Award-winning poet Mary Jo Bang's new translation of Purgatorio is the extraordinary continuation of her journey with Dante, which began with her transformative version of Inferno. In Purgatorio, still guided by the Roman poet Virgil, Dante emerges from the horrors of Hell to begin the climb up Mount Purgatory, a seven-terrace mountain with each level devoted to those atoning for one of the seven deadly sins. At the summit, we find the Terrestrial...

Includes verses from all three tales of Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.

Longfellow's classic poem of this historic ride is brought to life through illustrations capturing the emotions of the period when the British militia arrived in Boston Harbor, which led to the start of the American Revolution.