Of all of Longfellows beloved poems (and there are many) none is so personal, so sunny, or so touching as this affectionate love letter to his three daughters, grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with the golden hair. Longfellows happiest hours were spent writing on a cluttered desk by the south window of his beloved Craigie House, an imposing mansion still preserved on Cambridges famous Brattle Street. It was here that most of the action takes place (except for his literary reference, and brief excursion, to the Mouse-Tower on the Rhine), here that his daughters come creeping down the stairs to beard the gentle, genial poet in his lair. Langs luminous illustrations perfectly capture the happy atmosphere of that house, the authors affections for his daughters, and the painterly quality of his verse. This book for young readers presents one of the sweetest poems in the English language, her newly illustrated, beautifully presented, and now available to a new generation of readers.

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 8-12 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published in 1993 by David R. Godine Publisher Inc .

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 .