Crossword-Solution: LONGFELLOW
We have 17 clues for the answer “LONGFELLOW”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Author of an 1841 poem that contains the line spelled out by the shaded squares | 1 answer |
| United States poet remembered for his long narrative poems | 1 answer |
| Song of Hiawatha" poet | 1 answer |
| Relater of Revere's ride | 1 answer |
| Poet Henry Wadsworth: "Evangeline" | 1 answer |
| Poet Henry Wadsworth ___ | 1 answer |
| Man of the children's hour | 1 answer |
| He wrote "The Psalm of Life" | 1 answer |
| He wrote "A Psalm of Life." | 1 answer |
| Associate at a store's Big & Tall depertment? | 1 answer |
| "The Children's Hour" poet | 1 answer |
| "Kavanagh" author | 1 answer |
| "Into each life some rain must fall" poet | 1 answer |
| "Excelsior" author | 1 answer |
| "Evangeline" poet | 1 answer |
| "Evangeline" author | 1 answer |
| American poet. | 29 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LONGFELLOW (5)
Longfellow made no secret of the fact that he had used the meter of the Kalevala; but as for the legends, he openly gave credit to Schoolcraft in his notes to the poem.
She knew long portions of the “Frithjof Saga” by heart, and, like most Swedes who read at all, she was fond of Longfellow’s verse,—the ballads and the “Golden Legend” and “The Spanish Student.” To-day she sat in the wooden rocking-chair with the Swedish Bible open on her knees, but she was not reading.
Five or six of the best: you want Longfellow and Bryant and Whittier and Holmes and Emerson and Lowell." The girl listened attentively, as if making mental note of the names.
How could she remember where they were, when they were so seldom asked for? Orma Fry occasionally took out a novel, and her brother Ben was fond of what he called “jography,” and of books relating to trade and bookkeeping; but no one else asked for anything except, at intervals, “Uncle Tom's Cabin,” or “Opening of a Chestnut Burr,” or Longfellow.
Your own Longfellow whispers, in every hour of trial and disappointment, “labor and wait.” James Russell Lowell is reminding us that “men are more than institutions.” Pierpont cheers the heart of the pilgrim in search of liberty, by singing the praises of “the north star.” Bryant, too, is with us; and though chained to the car of party, and dragged on amidst a whirl of political excitement, he snatches a moment for letting drop a smiling verse of sympathy for the man in chains.
Quotes with LONGFELLOW (3)
Longfellow smiled. "A great part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, my dear Lowell, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
The connection being that in my head all language began in song and that the best stories inevitably reutrn to song, to a state of rapture. For years, I had assumed that throwing beautiful words at the page would make my prose feel true. But I had the process exactly backward. It was truth that lifted the language into beauty and toward song. It was a matter of doing what Joe Henry did, of pursuing characters into moments of emotional truth and slowing down. The result was a …
The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to…
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Appears in: LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 16 times in crossword archives (1955–2019).