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(0)Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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In his lifetime Longfellow was recognized as one of the America's great poets, though he became temporarily less fashionable after his death. A great admirer of the European tradition, he contributed greatly to the American intellectual life against the contemporary grain of isolationalism.
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The stunning collection of short fiction that established Nathaniel Hawthorne as one of the most powerful and provocative artists in nineteenth-century America Dr. Heidegger invites four friends to witness an experiment. As the impoverished merchant Mr. Medbourne, the gout-ridden sinner Colonel Killigrew, the ruined politician Mr. Gascoigne, and the aged widow Wycherly watch, Heidegger places an old rose in a vase filled with water drawn from the...