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Longfellow's Poetical Works.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Navy grained leather binding with gilt raised banding, decoration and title on the spine. Gilt title and decoration on the boards. All edges gilt. Red marbled end pape
Portrait frontispiece, numerous engraved illustrations, 644 pages, finely bound in original straight grained morocco, gilt decorated spine, borders and dentelles, endpapers foxed. A very good copy.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", "The Song of Hiawatha", and "Evangeline". He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England.
Longfellow was born in Portland, District of Maine, Massachusetts (now Portland, Maine). He graduated from Bowdoin College and became a professor there and, later, at Harvard College after studying in Europe. His first major poetry collections were Voices of the Night (1839) and Ballads and Other Poems (1841).
He retired from teaching in 1854 to focus on his writing, and he lived the remainder of his life in the Revolutionary War headquarters of George Washington in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
His first wife, Mary Potter, died in 1835 after a miscarriage. His second wife, Frances Appleton, died in 1861 after sustaining burns when her dress caught fire. After her death, Longfellow had difficulty writing poetry for a time and focused on translating works from foreign languages. Longfellow died in 1882.
Longfellow wrote many lyric poems known for their musicality and often presenting stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and had success overseas. He has been criticized for imitating European styles and writing poetry that was too sentimental.
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- Martin Frost
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FB5238 /1C
- Title
- Longfellow's Poetical Works.
- Author
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Format/Binding
- Leather binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- George Routledge & Sons.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1877
- Size
- 18 x23 x5cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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