Cross of Snow A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Nicholas A Basbanes | 72.89 MB
English | 490 Pages

Title: Cross of Snow
Author: Nicholas A. Basbanes
Year: 2020

Description:
A major literary biography of America's best-loved nineteenth-century poet, the first in more than fifty years, and a much-needed re-assessment for the twenty-first century of a writer whose stature and celebrity were unparalleled in his time, whose work helped to explain America's new world not only to Americans but to Europe and beyond. From the author of On Paper ("Buoyant" -The New Yorker; "Essential" -Publishers Weekly), Patience and Fortitude ("A wonderful hymn" -Simon Winchester), and A Gentle Madness ("A jewel" -David McCullough). In Cross of Snow, the result of more than twelve years of research, including access to never-before-examined letters, diaries, journals, notes, Nicholas Basbanes reveals the life, the times, the work-the soul-of the man who shaped the literature of a new nation with his countless poems, sonnets, stories, essays, translations, and whose renown was so...

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