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Longfellow’s Imaginative Engagement: The Works of His Late Career
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Jeffrey Hotz, associate professor of English and chairperson of the English Department at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, will discuss his recent academic monograph Longfellow’s Imaginative Engagement: The Works of His Late Career. Longfellow's Imaginative Engagement is a first-of-its-kind study of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s late-career poems and biography from 1861 until 1882, covering the poet’s posthumous publications and the handling of his literary estate. Using never-before-discussed archival materials from Harvard’s Houghton Library and the Longfellow House–Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, including unpublished poems and poem fragments, this literary biography presents Longfellow’s vibrant and complex final two decades.
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