By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was one of the most popular and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Longfellow (1807-82) is best-known for The Song of Hiawatha, and for growing a beard to hide the marks of a family tragedy, but he also wrote many […]
Tag: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
‘To the River Charles’: A Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
‘Thou hast taught me, Silent River! / Many a lesson, deep and long; / Thou hast been a generous giver; / I can give thee but a song.’ In ‘To the River Charles’, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82), who is best known as the author of Hiawatha, praises the Charles river […]
A Short Analysis of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s ‘The Rainy Day’
On Longfellow’s glorious rain poem The US poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82) is best-known for The Song of Hiawatha, and for growing a beard to hide the marks of a family tragedy, but he also wrote many other celebrated poems. And then there’s ‘The Rainy Day’, which isn’t numbered among […]