It’s good so far. I’m still not done with “Anna Karenina.” Varun, News Exec: “A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow My grandfather — who used to make me practice sitting still — has always ...

“Who is the sleeper?” he finally asked his daughter. The answer was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Emerson was in the throes of dementia. Even so, the story seems like a small allegory of ...

Just seven months before Nathan Revere took control of the train, famed poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,” catapulted an obscure silversmith into ...

As for the title, you can give the 19th-century American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow some credit for that. He wrote the poem “The Wreck Of The Hesperus” in 1842, creating a sad narrative ...

Everyone should know, “On the 18th of April in ’75, hardly a man is now alive who remembers that day and year,” as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote. It was that day, 250 years ago that Paul ...

Andrews Norton, the Examiner’s editor, ended the series. For the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Margaret Fuller simply was that “dreary woman,” his response to a caustic review in which ...

Revere, who was later immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, was one of many riders who rode through the countryside, spreading the alarm on April 18, 1775 Ellen Wexler ...

A lot of us learned about the revolutionary sprint through Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s iconic poem that begins, “Listen, my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.” ...

"Paul Revere’s Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Though the witnesses to that historic horseback ride have long since passed on, the story lives. And this weekend, Paul Revere will arrive in ...

"LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere," Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous work begins. Longfellow wrote the poem in 1860 as America hurtled toward civil ...

The House was George Washington’s first long-term headquarters during the American Revolution, and was also the home of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The site is preserved by the National ...

The writer’s grandfather founded an agricultural empire, but destroyed his business and his family rather than cede control to his sons. “It’s ‘Succession,’ with spinach,” Seabrook ...