... in author- ity ; and his importance was vastly increased in the village by a pair of double - barrelled specta- cles , so contrived , that , when bent over his desk and deeply buried in his musty papers , he could look up and see what ...

... Longfellow and the family's Trust was in keeping with not only the practices in eighteenth-century colonies but also the patriotic, antiquarian spirit in which Henry and Fanny Appleton Longfellow regarded “Castle Craigie.” The poet ...

... Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Fan Mail and Antebellum Poetic Culture , " unpublished essay , 2004 , copy of paper in author's ... W. Warren , Fanny Fern : An Independent Woman ( New Brunswick , NJ : Rutgers Univ . Press , 1992 ) , 120-42 ...