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          Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a commanding figure in the cultural life of nineteenth-century America..

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          This past week, my junior English III students learned about one of America&#;s first celebrities, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

          An introduction to Longfellow's life and career.

        1. Charles C. Calhoun shows how the young poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow blended the Federalist politics and Unitarianism of his parents'.
        2. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a commanding figure in the cultural life of nineteenth-century America.
        3. A new biography offers a fresh look at Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Your browser can't play this video.
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          5. Yes, he&#;s old-fashioned. Yes, he&#;s so &#;19th-century.&#; However, his work is ingrained in our popular collective culture like few other literary giants.

          Unfortunately, however, our Glencoe textbook includes only one of his poems.

          Can you believe that?! Furthermore, can you believe that the poem featured is the somber and ghostly verse, &#;The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls?&#; It seems like a strange choice to me, considering the full range of other, more well-known verses.

          After all, Longfellow is one of only two (Henry James is the other) American poets memorialized in Poets&#; Corner of London&#;s Westminster Abbey.

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          That being the case, you might think Longfellow would command more front-of-mind awareness among readers today, including students.

          Not so. Out of my 45 students, only two said they had hea