Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Longfellow wrote to tell EM she had the applause of youth and age for this book: that of his daughter Edith and himself. He also sent her an American review, which praised the novel...

The high opinions of many of AP 's contemporaries did not carry over into later assessments, although Eric Robertson in his English Poetesses, 1883, praised her for having reached the toiling busy thousands who...

She much preferred reading to full-scale theatrical productions: The happiness of reading Shakespeare's heavenly imaginations is so far beyond all the excitement of acting them. The readings were popular and lucrative. Longfellow wrote a...

In a preface to the authorized American edition (dated 14 May 1894 at Tuckahoe, New York) BH related how she was unable to find the quotation with which she wished to title her book...

The story opens with Charles Osmond's son Brian, a young doctor in Bloomsbury, and his daily observation of a tall schoolgirl on her way home with her books. This is Erica Raeburn, who has...

The King and the Angel is INH 's attempt to dramatise a story told in Leigh Hunt 's Jar of Honey from Mount Hybla, 1848. The legend behind this story has given rise to...

Another well-known hymn, written in 1859 and anthologized by A. H. Miles , begins with the line God draws a cloud over each gleaming morn. Cobbe also wrote verse later in her life, such...

BH published a novel entitled (quoting from a song in Longfellow 's Tales of a Wayside Inn, 1863) Ships that Pass in the Night, dedicated to her friends Agnes and John Kendall ...

Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde , wrote to poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to express her appreciation for his work; she sent copies of verses she had written on him that had appeared in the Boston Pilot.

In addition to this editorial work, KT also wrote introductions or forewords for a number of volumes, including Lionel Johnson 's Poems (1904), Edmund Leamy 's By the Barrow River and Other Stories (1907), The...

Illustrated Poems by LHS , 1849, appeared in a prestigious series that also included William Cullen Bryant and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . She dedicated it to the aged English poet Samuel Rogers .

Two years after the release of her second volume entitled Poems, some of her verses appeared in a Canadian collection titled The New Poems of Jean Ingelow, J. G. Whittier , H. W. Longfellow.

IB published her last two novels: Bond Slaves: The Story of a Struggle, about the Luddite Rebellion, and The Slowly Grinding Mills, whose title is borrowed from a line by Longfellow .

Mary Cowden Clarke published a parody of Hiawatha by Longfellow : The Song of Drop o' Wather by Harry Wandsworth Shortfellow.

In her review Miss Barrett 's Poems she praised the English poet's majesty and her poetic vision but noted also her lack of economy and the stiffness of her verse. She reviewed works by...