Category: General
Lecture and Poetry Reading: "Longfellow, Friends and Rivals"
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May 15, 2014
Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman. Dickens, Thackeray, Tennyson. Irving, Bryant, Lowell. Thoreau, Holmes, Wilde. The list goes on and on. Perhaps no period in human history produced more famous authors and literature than the period spanning Longfellow's life. Using his life and poems as the timeline, this presentation introduces Longfellow's contemporaries, his interaction with them, and samples of his and their writing.
New Lebanon Library
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New Lebanon, NY 12125
