Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism

Illustrated throughout with 19th century engravings. Monongahela Books. Oct 2023. “The renaissance in Longfellow studies can be said to have begun in 1993 with the publication in The Columbia History of American Poetry of “Longfellow in the Aftermath of Modernism,” a lengthy essay by the California poet and educator Dana Gioia, who would later serve as director of the National Endowment for the Arts. Gioia’s spirited testimonial amounted to a clarion call for reconsideration . . . “ ~~Nicholas A. Basbanes, in the introduction to Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.