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Dear Mr. Longfellow - Letters to and from the Children's Poet (Paperback)
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Dear Mr. Longfellow - Letters to and from the Children's Poet (Paperback)
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Loot Price R326
Discovery Miles 3 260
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If you were attending school in the late-nineteenth century, it's
very likely that your teacher would have taught you to memorize
lines from "The Village Blacksmith" by renowned poet Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow. And on the classroom wall you'd probably see
his portrait looking down benignly on you and your classmates.
Longfellow was so famous and beloved by youth in this era that he
was known as "the children's poet." Students not only memorized his
poetry but sent him hundreds of letters.
In this charming biography, storyteller and author Sydelle Pearl
recounts the life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by drawing upon the
letters he received from his young admirers. In their letters,
children from yesteryear reveal details about their lives that
reach across the years to young people today. The letters also
highlight the unique, close relationship that children shared with
Longfellow. A girl from West Virginia writes, "Thank you so much
for writing for children.... It makes us feel that we are not
forgotten." Others ask him about what he did as a boy or a young
man. In one extraordinary gesture of friendship, the schoolchildren
of Cambridge celebrated his birthday by presenting him with a chair
created from the wood of the "spreading chestnut tree" made famous
in his poem "The Village Blacksmith." Longfellow dedicated his poem
"From My Arm-Chair" to these thoughtful children.
Complete with selected poems and photographs of the poet and his
family, "Dear Mr. Longfellow" brings to life a famous figure of
American literature and a distant, simpler age in the history of
our country.
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