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'Footprints on the sands of time'; In search of forgotten Longfellow, once the world's most popular poet.(FEATURES)(BOOKS)

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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 20040928
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Byline: Patrick J. Walsh

Tongues all over the world once recited the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Students use to memorize "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" and lines from "Evangeline" and "Hiawatha." Longfellow's literary reputation once rivaled that of Tennyson and Dickens, and after his death, the American poet was singularly honored by having his bust placed in Westminster Abbey with the greatest English poets.

But when Longfellow is mentioned at all today, he is held up to ridicule by modern academics. In this sympathetic and welcome biography, Charles ...

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