The poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow have earned him an unshakeable place in American literary history, reacalled through popular nursery rhymes and songs of in unforgettable lines, such as "On the shores of Gitche Gumee," or "Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere." So many of his poems are known to us that Longfellow may well qualify as America's best loved poet.
This book features 40 works, and is 296 pages.