An anthology of the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow for young people. It contains poems such as "The Village Blacksmith", "The Song of Hiawatha", "The Rainy Day", "A Psalm of Life", "The Arrow and the Song", "The Wreck of the Hesperus", "Hymn to the Night", and "The Children's Hour". It also contains an introduction telling of Wadsworth's life, his childhood and his family, as well as the inspiration for his poems. As with the other titles in this series, supplementary word definitions should give children the knowledge they need to fully understand the poems.

 

This book is part of a book series called Poetry For Young People .

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Sterling Juvenile .

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was the most famous American poet of his time. Best known for long narrative works and the classic "Paul Revere's Ride," he was a modern languages professor at Bowdoin College and Harvard College, as well as the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy . Frances Schoonmaker is a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at Teacher's College, Columbia University. She has taught and lectured in China, Japan, Mexico, England, and India, and served as the head of the teacher education initiative for the Teachers College/UNICEF Afghanistan Project.