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Poetry fans rediscover Longfellow's voice, values

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From: The Boston Globe
Date: 19960616
Author:Richard Higgins, Globe Staff

SUDBURY -- He's been quite dead for more than a century, but Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is making a minor comeback these days, and nowhere more so than at the inn he made famous.

The Longfellow Poetry Society of the Wayside Inn -- its full name is actually Longfellow's Wayside Inn -- calls the Cambridge poet the inspiration behind its new series of monthly prose and poetry readings, "The Spoken Word West of Boston." The series features local authors reading their own works.

The society of amateur poets from the western suburbs has grown from 10 to 25 active members in the last year. When ...

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