Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
On April 5, 1860, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) climbed to the belfry of Boston's Old North Church, where almost a century earlier bells tolled the warning that the British were coming. The visit inspired him to write his classic poem ... [... more]
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Lino Pertile
In 1867, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow completed the first American translation of and thus introduced Dante's literary genius to the New World. In the , the spirit of the classical poet Virgil leads Dante through the nine circles of Hell on the ... [... more]
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Matthew Pearl
Matthew Pearl is the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Dickens, The Dante Club, and The Poe Shadow, and is the editor of the Modern Library editions of Dante's Inferno (translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) and Edgar Allan Poe's ... [... more]
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