... for a nice guy and a better poet than he is given credit for being: Time raises Longfellow, like Lazarus, from the dead.
We don’t all like to be told life is real, life is earnest, but enough of us do to have kept his flame alive during the dark years.
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ReplyDeleteDana Gioia wrote a very good piece on Longfellow and the dramatic force of his "Paul Revere's Ride."
http://www.danagioia.net/essays/elongfellow.htm