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BIOGRAPHIES REVEAL TWO VERY DIFFERENT LITERARY FIGURES

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From: Evansville Courier & Press
Date: 20041010
Author:David Locker

On the face of it, no authors are more different from each other than Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Malcolm Lowry.

Longfellow was gentle and serene, while Lowry was the violent architect of his own doom.

Longfellow lived in a mansion, and Lowry was a squatter in Dollarton, Vancouver, Canada.

Longfellow wrote poems that rhyme. Lowry constructed fiction that can be read on several levels.

Almost everyone has heard of Longfellow, but the same is not true of Lowry. As did many individuals of my generation, I read and memorized Longfellow's works when I was a child. They stood next to the poems of ...

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