He based his works on a group of fictitious characters who regularly gathered at the old Sudbury Tavern. Lyman Howe was the character featured in The Landlord's Tale, in which Longfellow penned the immortal phrase, "Listen my children and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere".
He based his works on a group of fictitious characters who regularly gathered at the old Sudbury Tavern. Lyman Howe was the character featured in The Landlord's Tale, in which Longfellow penned the immortal phrase, "Listen my children and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere".
These pages should meet with any readers inclined, like their writer, "To seek and to admire the veiled truth and solemn beauty of the elder time, they will add their humble testimony to the fact, that whatever be the purpose and tendencies of the time we live in, we are not all unmindful of the better part of our inheritance in this world."
The contents of this volume befit the verse-form, as if each were made by and for the other. The subjects are simple, large, weighty; the form is compact, strong, suggestive. Bjornson is distinctly not subjectively lyrical, but has a place in the first rank "as a choral lyric poet and as an epic lyric poet.
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Comments for "Tales of a Wayside Inn"
Michael Angelo
By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
These pages should meet with any readers inclined, like their writer, "To seek and to admire the veiled truth and solemn beauty of the elder time, they will add their humble testimony to the fact, that whatever be the purpose and tendencies of the time we live in, we are not all unmindful of the better part of our inheritance in this world."
Poems and Songs
By: Bjornstjerne Bjornson
The contents of this volume befit the verse-form, as if each were made by and for the other. The subjects are simple, large, weighty; the form is compact, strong, suggestive. Bjornson is distinctly not subjectively lyrical, but has a place in the first rank "as a choral lyric poet and as an epic lyric poet.