Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Label

Cross of snow : a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Title remainder

a life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Statement of responsibility

Nicholas A. Basbanes

Creator

• Basbanes, Nicholas A., 1943-

Author

• Basbanes, Nicholas A., 1943-

Subject

• Authors' spouses -- United States -- Biography
• Biographies
• Biographies
• Longfellow, Fanny Appleton, 1817-1861
• Longfellow, Fanny Appleton, 1817-1861
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
• 1800-1899
• Poets, American
• Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography
• United States
• Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
• Authors' spouses

Genre

• Biography
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

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 wide-reaching that his deep friendships included Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Julia Ward Howe, and Oscar Wilde. Basbanes writes of the shaping of Longfellow's character, his huge body of work that included translations of numerous foreign works, among them, the first rendering into a complete edition by an American of Dante's Divine Comedy. We see Longfellow's two marriages, both happy and contented, each cut short by tragedy. His first to Mary Storer Potter that ended in the aftermath of a miscarriage, leaving Longfellow devastated. His second marriage to the brilliant Boston socialite--Fanny Appleton, after a three-year pursuit by Longfellow (his "fiery crucible," he called it), and his emergence as a literary force and a man of letters. A portrait of a bold artist, experimenter of poetic form and an innovative translator--the human being that he was, the times in which he lived, the people whose lives he touched, his monumental work and its place in his America and ours

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

LBSOR/DLC

Dewey number

• 811/.3
• B

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

index present

LC call number

PS2281

LC item number

.B37 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography