Abstract
AMONG his contemporaries, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a figure of immense reputation, a poet revered not only for his poems but for his exemplary life. In fathoming the extraordinary popularity he enjoyed in his lifetime, we must assess not only the quantity of books he sold-William Charvat calculates that by 1869 this number reached about one-third of a million'-but the quality of the veneration he elicited. In other words, we must be prepared to account for such responses as this reminiscence by the Boston-born theater critic and essayist William Winter:
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