Part one of term paper
was born on February 27, 1807. He was a widely read and highly regarded poet of the nineteenth century. Longfellow was successful in both lyric and narrative poetry and later wrote incredible sonnets. He was not a poet of extremes, intense passion, or tragedy. He was gentle and optimistic and felt the purpose of poetry was to “embellis ...

Part two of term paper
... often criticized for being overly sentimental. However, Longfellow never fell out of favor with the poetry reading public, primarily because of his simple style, familiar themes, easily grasped ideas, and clear, simple, melodious language. Longfellow avoided the intensely personal in his works. Therefore, the themes and topics he used were a varying spectrum of everything, but himself. Some of his works included the topics of; innocence in “Evangeline,” bridging the gap between Anglo and I ...