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Dana Gioia Online - Longfellow (1549 words) |
 | Longfellow never did so elsewhere in his poetry.) The implicit message of the line is clear: Paul Revere's achievements were of such singular importance that we must learn the date by heart and teach it to posterity. |
| Longfellow was an immensely versatile poet who excelled at virtually every form and genre from the epic to the sonnet. |
| Longfellow's galloping triple meters create a thrilling sense of speed, and the rhetorical device of stating the time of night when Revere enters each village adds a cumulative feeling of the rider's urgency. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1775 words) |
| Henry was the son of Stephen Longfellow and Zilpah Wadsworth Longfellow. |
| Longfellow entered the beautiful old elm-encircled house as a lodger, not knowing that this was to be his home for the rest of his life. |
| Longfellow's wife died of burns she received when packages of her children's curls, which she was sealing with matches and wax, burst into flame. |
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