sensibilities, the empirical and the transcendental. In contrast, Longfellow intended his narrative and lyric poems—genres disdained by modernists---as inspiriting guides to the nation's honorable past and challenging future. Yeats ascribed Longfellow's popularity to his accessibility---"he tells his story or idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it."from Newsweek: Longfellow: A Founder
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