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Tag Name "Longfellow" (8)

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Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.
William Butler Yeats
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Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.
Van Wyck Brooks
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I'm the only person you've ever met who has read Longfellow.
Margaret Atwood
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Then come and as we lay, beside this sleepy glade, there I will sing to you my Longfellow serenade.
Neil Diamond
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The kind of poetry to avoid in the pretty-pretty kind that pleased our grandmothers, the kind that Longfellow and Tennyson, good poets at their best, wrote at their worst.
Clifton Fadiman
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People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Though a woman tempted man to eat, my dear Longfellow, said Holmes, you never hear of Eve having to do with his drinking, for he took to that of his own notion.
Matthew Pearl
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The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of.
William Shakespeare