Longfellow The Laurel Poetry Series Author:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow From the introduction by Howard Nemerow: "My object in making this selection of Longfellow's work has been to exhibit a poet somewhat different from the one who wrote, e.g., 'A Psalm of Life,' 'Hiawatha,' 'The Wreck of the Schooner Hesperus.' Without trying to present him , in the result, as anything like a great poet (there are fewer of these... more » than I formerly thought), I shall claim for some his productions an interest other than historical, scholarly, or biographical-an interest truly poetical, and undiminished by time."« less