Tales of a Wayside Inn
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discussed in biography
- In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Revere’s Ride, and other poetry
The Tales of a Wayside Inn, modeled roughly on Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales and published in 1863, reveals his narrative gift. The first poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride,” became a national favourite. Written in anapestic tetrameter meant to suggest the galloping of a horse, this folk…
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Haddonfield
- In Haddonfield
…Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863). She lived to be 82, and her personal belongings are displayed in Greenfield Hall, headquarters of the Haddonfield Historical Society. The Indian King Tavern, where the New Jersey Legislature met in 1777 and which was a station of the…
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Revere
- In Paul Revere
…of Revere’s patriotic heroics in Tales of a Wayside Inn, a collection of story poems published in 1863 at the height of the American Civil War.
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Sudbury
- In Sudbury
…setting for Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863). The inn is the centrepiece of a restored 18th-century “village.” Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge extends along the river through Sudbury. Inc. 1639. Area 25 square miles (65 square km). Pop. (2000) 16,841; (2010) 17,659.
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