Poems of Places 9
From Poems of Places, vol. 22, Asia 2 (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1878), edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: [Afghanistan: Cabul (Cabool)] Excerpted from Ruins of Many Lands: A Descriptive...
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From Poems of Places, vol. 14, Spain 1 (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1877), edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: [Italica] Fabius, if tears prevent thee not, survey The long dismantled...
View ArticleBetween the Ghosts and the Guests
For me this has been a more difficult year than most, beginning with my father’s stroke in February; then continuing through spring, when his survival was still uncertain; then through summer, when I...
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From Poems of Places, vol. 1, England 1 (London: Macmillan and Co., 1877), edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: [Laken] To A Bird That Haunted the Waters of Laken in the Winter O melancholy bird, a...
View ArticleR.I.P. Frank Frazetta
I’ve been meaning to write about this surprising new edition of Longfellow’s Dante, brought out by Del Rey Books, the science fiction imprint of Random House. And yes, it’s a video game tie-in. I’m not...
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From Poems of Places, vol. 27, America: Middle States (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Company, 1879), edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: [Fire Island, N.Y.] I am tempted to call Fire Island the most...
View ArticlePinky Ring
Found this steel engraving of Longfellow today in Graham’s Magazine (vol. 22, no. 5 [May 1843]); it accompanied an unsigned essay on the poet. Longfellow didn’t think much of it — to say the least. In...
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From Poems of Places, vol. 21, Asia: Syria (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1878), edited by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: [Palmyra (Tadmor)] A chain of associations led me from Longfellow to...
View ArticleA Minor Angevin
For my own amusement, I keep track of Longfellow sightings, especially those from modern authors; and I keep track of Sicily references too, having family there. I note, then, the following from Mary...
View Article“Not wholly useless, though no longer used”
One of his last poems, published posthumously. Longfellow was never one for violent contention so I find it hard to take his analogy too seriously, but the image of the old man “clouded and confused,”...
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