Tag Archives: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

GOP Red Wave Doesn’t Materialize

By Robin Bates | Published: November 9, 2022

Longfellow’s “The Brook and the Ocean” capture some of the dynamics of the 2022 mid-term election.

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Pots Turned on the Wheel of Life

By Robin Bates | Published: September 3, 2022

Jeremiah imagines God as a destructive potter. For Longfellow, the potter is inscrutable destiny.

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Longfellow, 19th-Century Rock Star

By Robin Bates | Published: March 1, 2022

More passages from Pearl’s “The Dante Club,” about the 19th Century’s love of poetry.

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When Reading Dante Was a Radical Act

By Robin Bates | Published: February 23, 2022

In Matthew Pearl’s 19th century murder mystery “Dante Club,” translating Dante is dangerous business.

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Poetry Soothes Our Restless Feelings

By Robin Bates | Published: November 29, 2021

Longfellow’s “Day Is Done” recommends simple poetry for calming restless thoughts.

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Stately Pines as Cathedral Towers

By Robin Bates | Published: September 25, 2021

For Longfellow, the stateliest church and the best place to worship is in a pine forest.

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Devoured by Kisses

By Robin Bates | Published: June 7, 2021

Hugging my grandchildren for the first time in over 18 months brought to mind Longfellow’s “Children’s Hour.”

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Justice First, Then You Can Sail On

By Robin Bates | Published: February 10, 2021

The first day of Trump’s trial began with Longfellow and ended with James Russell Lowell.

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Ring Out the Old, Ring in the New

By Robin Bates | Published: December 31, 2020

Tennyson and Longfellow have poems about bells ringing out an age of sin and suffering and ringing in new hope. Let them ring.

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