A: “Anyone who has had the misfortune to be the son of an illustrious parent knows how hard it is to be taken seriously,” wrote Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow in his autobiography “Random ...

The carol that we now know as “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” was originally a poem called “Christmas Bells” written by Henry Wadsworth ... Longfellow and his younger son, Ernest ...

If we are right in thinking that Mr. Longfellow’s poetry led the way in art, then it is a specially happy sequence which is intimated by the illustration which Mr. Ernest Longfellow has given of ...

Even so, the case of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow seems extreme ... He “hated excess or extremes,” his son Ernest said, and disliked taking a stand about anything. He was antislavery, for ...

Both the Wadsworth-Longfellow House in Portland, where the poet grew up, and Longfellow House-Washington’s National Headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he lived most of his adult ...

From Bjarki, Not Bjarki, which was published in January by the University of Iowa Press. What is wood? Consider the teenager’s nomenclature for an erect pecker. A peckerwood is a… ...