A Favorable Treatment of Longfellow's Poetry

This e-book treats the poems in Longfellow’s collection entitled “Voices of the Night,” including “The Psalm of Life.” Also treated is his “Book of Sonnets,” including his tribute to his friends Charles Sumner, Louis Agassiz, and Cornelius Felton and his justly famous “The Cross of Snow.” Also treated is “Ballads and Other Poems,” including “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” “The Village Blacksmith,” and “Excelsior.” In the field of drama, we look at “The Spanish Student” and “Judas Maccabaeus.” Also treated are three of the five collections entitled “Birds of Passage.” “The Children’s Hour” occurs in these collections.