The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, The Riverside Press, [1903].
Cambridge Edition.
Octavo. xxi, 689 pp., with engraved title and frontispiece portrait. Half red morocco and marbled boards, spine gilt in compartments with five raised bands, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Faint rubbing to extremities, bookseller's label to rear pastedown, but still a near fine copy in a lovely binding.
Later edition of the poetical works of Longfellow, including his beloved poems "The Song of Hiawatha", "Evangeline", and "Paul Revere's Ride".
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882) was the most popular American poet of his day. He published his first poem at the age of 13, and by the time he graduated college he had published nearly forty. Longfellow quickly achieved an unparalleled popularity - by the end of his life he was earning $3,000 per poem and his birthday was being celebrated in schools. Renowned poets such as Baudelaire, Emerson, Whittier, and Poe all celebrated his work, and today he is honored as the only American poet with a bust in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey.
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