What Longfellow Heard

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was enormously

famous in his day. Adults and children celebrated

his poems, both in America and abroad.

He was the first American poet admitted into the

Poets’ Corner of Westminster Abbey in England

and was renowned for such works as “Hiawatha,”

“Paul Revere’s Ride,” “Evangeline,” “Tales of a Wayside

Inn” and others. However, his amazing life was

wrought with trials and heartaches during an era

when America was laboring to grow up without destroying

itself in the process.

What Longfellow Heard is a powerful telling,

in many of the words and musings of the poet

himself, of his tragic quest for love and family, his

longing for art and fame, and his heartbreaking

loss. Discover how his art and faith wrestled within

him while he desperately tried to make peace with

the tumult of his times. Experience the tragedy of

his first marriage, his long road to recovery, and his

passion for the woman he pursued for seven years

while the nation fractured and his poetry soared.

What Longfellow Heard is a novel with profound

relevance to our modern-day polarization,

increasingly clouded national identities, and the

universal aching for peace, joy, and purpose in the

midst of conflict and confusion.