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Basbanes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCross of Snow\u003c\/i\u003e, the result of more than twelve years of research, including access to never-before-examined letters, diaries, journals, notes, Nicholas Basbanes reveals the life, the times, the work–the soul–of the man who shaped the literature of a new nation with his countless poems, sonnets, stories, essays, translations, and whose renown was so wide-reaching that his deep friendships included Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Julia Ward Howe, and Oscar Wilde.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBasbanes writes of the shaping of Longfellow’s [Bowdoin Class of 1825] character, his huge body of work that included translations of numerous foreign works, among them, the first rendering into a complete edition by an American of Dante’s \u003ci\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e. We see Longfellow’s two marriages, both happy and contented, each cut short by tragedy. His first to Mary Storer Potter that ended in the aftermath of a miscarriage, leaving Longfellow devastated. His second marriage to the brilliant Boston socialite–Fanny Appleton, after a three-year pursuit by Longfellow (his “fiery crucible,” he called it), and his emergence as a literary force and a man of letters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA portrait of a bold artist, experimenter of poetic form and an innovative translator–the human being that he was, the times in which he lived, the people whose lives he touched, his monumental work and its place in his America and ours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e","published_at":"2020-07-13T11:20:54-04:00","created_at":"2020-07-13T11:20:53-04:00","vendor":"Bowdoin College","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":3750,"price_min":3750,"price_max":3750,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3750,"compare_at_price_min":3750,"compare_at_price_max":3750,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":32051205439577,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA251-Longfellow","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3750,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3750,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781101875148","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba251-basbanes-cross_73a5148f-eb65-4418-9014-ac78db289187.jpg?v=1613771568"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba251-basbanes-cross_73a5148f-eb65-4418-9014-ac78db289187.jpg?v=1613771568","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cross of Snow: A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Bowdoin Class of 1825, by Nicholas Basbanes","id":7492145774681,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba251-basbanes-cross_73a5148f-eb65-4418-9014-ac78db289187.jpg?v=1613771568"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba251-basbanes-cross_73a5148f-eb65-4418-9014-ac78db289187.jpg?v=1613771568","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Nicholas A. Basbanes\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eCross of Snow\u003c\/i\u003e, the result of more than twelve years of research, including access to never-before-examined letters, diaries, journals, notes, Nicholas Basbanes reveals the life, the times, the work–the soul–of the man who shaped the literature of a new nation with his countless poems, sonnets, stories, essays, translations, and whose renown was so wide-reaching that his deep friendships included Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Julia Ward Howe, and Oscar Wilde.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBasbanes writes of the shaping of Longfellow’s [Bowdoin Class of 1825] character, his huge body of work that included translations of numerous foreign works, among them, the first rendering into a complete edition by an American of Dante’s \u003ci\u003eDivine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e. We see Longfellow’s two marriages, both happy and contented, each cut short by tragedy. His first to Mary Storer Potter that ended in the aftermath of a miscarriage, leaving Longfellow devastated. His second marriage to the brilliant Boston socialite–Fanny Appleton, after a three-year pursuit by Longfellow (his “fiery crucible,” he called it), and his emergence as a literary force and a man of letters.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA portrait of a bold artist, experimenter of poetic form and an innovative translator–the human being that he was, the times in which he lived, the people whose lives he touched, his monumental work and its place in his America and ours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e"}