Diana Goetsch
Life in Transition
A blog about a person, and a culture, in flux. Diana Goetsch (formerly Douglas Goetsch) is a poet and freelance teacher of writing. Her latest book is Nameless Boy.
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How Longfellow Woke the Dead
By Jill Lepore
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride” is a jaunty, oft-quoted poem ingrained in the minds of most American schoolchildren. This is one of the main reasons, according to Jill Lepore, that Longfellow has been consistently ignored by literary scholars: “for a poet’s … reputation, to be read by children—and especially to be loved by children—is the sweet, sloppy kiss of death.” In our Spring 2011 issue, Lepore investigated the historical and literary merits of this 19th-century poem, published the same month South Carolina seceded from the United States. At the time, “Paul Revere’s Ride” was as much a clarion call for northerners to fight slavery as it was about the American Revolution.
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