One way to gain insight into someone’s psyche is to read what they wrote when they were 13. For Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, that’s his very first published poem, “The Battle of Lovell’s Pond,” which ...

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Author, Glenna Lang, Illustrator David R. Godine Publisher $17.95 (32p) ISBN 978-0-87923-971-8 One of Longfellow's best known poems, a loving tribute to his three young ...

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Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. On this day in 1775, patriots in Lexington and Concord fought the first ...

In the 19th century, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) stood astride the literary world like a giant. His work included some 420 published poems of every category and genre, among them such ...

In the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem, what did the little girl have in the middle of her forehead? What kind of flowers blow between the crosses in "In Flanders Fields"? The name of this verse of ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem “Paul Revere’s Ride,” taught in classrooms across the United States for over a century, begins with the line: “Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the ...