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amberacks12's review
lighthearted
reflective
slow-paced
3.75
3.75
I finally finished this one. I’ve been reading it off and on now for about a year, and I have to say, overall it was really nice. Some poems with stories I had heard before, some I hadn’t. Some were more interesting than others. Here are my standouts:
Evangeline
The Day is Done
Sandalphon
The Warden of the Cinque Ports
My Lost Youth
The Birds of Killingworth
The Courtship of Miles Standish
Martin Franc
The last one was especially comical, and I think Evangeline was my favorite.
I finally finished this one. I’ve been reading it off and on now for about a year, and I have to say, overall it was really nice. Some poems with stories I had heard before, some I hadn’t. Some were more interesting than others. Here are my standouts:
Evangeline
The Day is Done
Sandalphon
The Warden of the Cinque Ports
My Lost Youth
The Birds of Killingworth
The Courtship of Miles Standish
Martin Franc
The last one was especially comical, and I think Evangeline was my favorite.
jeanetterenee's review
2.0
I liked Longfellow's poems a lot better when I was a youngster. The sing-songy rhyming cadences were probably comforting to me as a child-- much like a lullaby. As an adult, they mostly just got on my nerves after a bit. And the surfeit of strained similes is almost too much to bear! Longfellow had talent, but he was writing to suit the tastes of the times in which he lived.
I do still get a little shiver up and down my spine from "Paul Revere's Ride"---one of my childhood favorites.
I do still get a little shiver up and down my spine from "Paul Revere's Ride"---one of my childhood favorites.
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