Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with Bibliographical and Critical Notes in two volumes.

Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with Bibliographical and Critical Notes in two volumes. Riverside Edition. Comprising Outre-Mer, Drift-Wood, Hyperion, Kavanagh.

Author: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

8vo.(5" x 7.25") 1891. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. Half brown polished leather with corners, double blind stamp rule to leather edges, over marbled boards. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt author/title/vol# to gilt framed brown leather in second compartment, gilt subtitles to gilt framed brown leather to fourth compartment, fancy gilt rule to head and foot of spine. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Minimal edgewear, corners a little rubbed, mild scuff to leather at board edges (see pic). Spines lightly sun faded to a pleasing chocolate brown. An attractive set of books.

From Wiki: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", "The Song of Hiawatha", and "Evangeline". He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England. Longfellow supported abolitionism and especially hoped for reconciliation between the northern and southern states after the American Civil War. His son Charles was injured during the war, and he wrote the poem "Christmas Bells", later the basis of the carol I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day. He wrote in his journal in 1878: "I have only one desire; and that is for harmony, and a frank and honest understanding between North and South". Longfellow accepted an offer from Joshua Chamberlain to speak at his fiftieth reunion at Bowdoin College, despite his aversion to public speaking. He read the poem "Morituri Salutamus" so quietly that few could hear him. The next year, he declined an offer to be nominated for the Board of Overseers at Harvard "for reasons very conclusive to my own mind".

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