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Tag: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The 1680 Auto-da-fe in Plaza Mayor, Madrid, by Francisco Rizi (1683) FEATURED

CR Episode 149: Longfellow and the Civil War, Part II

7 November 2022 Critical Readings

The panel reads two poems from Longfellow’s Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863): ‘Torquemada’ and ‘The Birds of Killingworth’, examining the role of zeal, dogma, and radical conduct in the poems, and what it may suggest about the war between the states.

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Paul Revere's Ride FEATURED

CR Episode 148: Longfellow and the Civil War, Part I

31 October 2022 Critical Readings

In the first of a two-part reading of selections from Longfellow’s Tales of a Wayside Inn, the panel reads the beginning of the Prelude and then examines “Paul Revere’s Ride” in detail, with attention to the structure of the text and its formal aspects.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow FEATURED

CR Episode 27: Longfellow’s Excelsior

30 December 2019 Critical Readings

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.

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