In defense of America's first "pop" poet
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xiii
A Note on Quotations xvii
Introduction 1
1. Strangers as Friends: Longfellow and His Readers
7
2. How Marbles Are Made: Fatherhood and Authorship
72
3. Mad for Travel: Enrico Abroad 145
4. "It Whirls Me Away": Longfellow and Translation
218
Epilogue 275
Notes 279
Bibliography 317
Index 333
Christoph Irmscher is a professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington, and the author of The Poetics of Natural History: From John Bartram to William James and Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200.
"A friendly and readable scholarly book about Longfellow, which
seeks to introduce a cosmopolitan and democratically multicultural
Longfellow for our time."--Times Literary Supplement
"Irmscher's enthusiasm for his subject is infectious. . . . Readers
are likely to be both charmed and edified. As this book makes
clear, Longfellow has much to teach us about how poetry can matter
to people outside the academy."--New England Quarterly
"Succeeds splendidly in giving us appreciatory access to
Longfellow's clear and coherent understanding of himself as a poet,
and provides illuminating readings of numerous poems. . . .
Irmscher's highly readable, richly detailed, masterly restoration
of Longfellow is more than welcome."--Partial Answers
"Longfellow Redux is one of the most important books on Longfellow
ever written. With impeccable scholarship, Christoph Irmscher
brings us along on a captivating journey across the broad range of
Longfellow's truly complex body of work. . . . Irmscher does what
many readers in and out of academia might have thought improbable:
he makes Longfellow exciting."--Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante
Club and editor of Dante's Inferno: The Longfellow Translation
"There was a time when most English-speaking readers from Cambridge
to Calcutta could recite Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poetry. In
Christoph Irmscher's Longfellow Redux we are charmingly reminded of
that time and of the country's first great celebrity poet.
Longfellow Redux is not only a splendid work of scholarship but a
wonderfully readable reminder of a world of poetry that is gone
forever and the popular poet who was the center of that world.
Longfellow Redux is a witty, wise, and important
book."--Christopher Corbett, author of Orphans Preferred: The
Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express
"Longfellow Redux, perfectly titled, is a provocative, persuasive,
and interesting book."--Daniel Aaron, professor emeritus of
American literature, Harvard University
"Irmscher's brilliant recontextualization of Longfellow, based on
thorough archival work and fascinating close readings of all sorts
of documents, supports an original and important thesis about
literary professionalism and 'middle-brow' culture in
mid-nineteenth-century America. Longfellow Redux will reorient work
on nineteenth-century American poetry at large and its contexts of
production."--George Hutchinson, Booth Tarkington Professor of
Literary Studies, Indiana University
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