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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
<p><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR></span><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family: Arial;color:windowtext;text-transform:uppercase'>Work In Progress</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial; color:windowtext'><BR><BR>(1807-1882). The most celebrated American poet of the 19th century; authored <i>Evangeline</i> (1847) <i>The Song of Hiawatha</i> (1855) etc. as well as a translation of Dante’s <i>The Divine Comedy</i> in three volumes. ALS, 3pp, 12mo, Cambridge, Dec 26, 1876. To [Canon Charles Bell in England] thanking him for a copy of “<i>Voices from the Lakes</i>.” He continues, “<i>Being engaged just now in making a collection of ‘Poems of Places’ I instudiously turned first to the descriptive pieces. They brought up very vividly before me the lovely scenery of the Lakes; and, I could not help regretting that I had not some of them in my book. Unfortunately the volumes on England are already printed and published. In later volumes I should like,with your permission, to insert ‘Naomi’ and the two Sonnets.</i>..” Verso of second leaf laid to mount; ink a little faded but entirely legible; minor soiling; else VG. <i>Poems of Places</i>, edited by Longfellow first appeared in Sep 1876 in England followed by publication in Ireland and America.</span></p>