CR Episode 27: Longfellow’s Excelsior

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by Julia Margaret Cameron
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, by Julia Margaret Cameron

Download Link: Released 2019.12.30

The panel reads and surveys three poems by Longfellow: ‘The Cross of Snow’, ‘The Day Is Done’, and ‘Excelsior’, and makes a case for Longfellow’s narrative and emotive expression, in contrast to modern critical demands for abstraction and complexity.