BOOK DISCUSSION GROUPS
Book discussion groups have been scheduled. Please read through the list of dates and times below to find a group that best meets your schedule. Each discussion group will meet for one hour. Participants are expected to have read the Dover Thrift Edition: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Favorite Poems and to have read the National Endowment Reader's Guide. Please call the Wayside Inn at 978/443-1776 to reserve a space or e-mail Project Director Cindy Hall Kouré. You can pick up copies of the anthology and the Reader's Guide at the Front Desk of the Wayside Inn.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:00-9:00pm
Location: Longfellow's Wayside Inn
Discussion Leader: Longfellow Big Read Project Director Cindy Hall Kouré
Friday, April 4, 2008 10:00-11:00am
Location: Longfellow's Wayside Inn
Discussion Leader: Dianne Hoaglin, former Sudbury middle school teacher and member of the Wayside Inn History Book Group
Friday, April 11, 2008 10:00-11:00am
Location: Longfellow's Wayside Inn
Discussion Leader: Dianne Hoaglin, former Sudbury middle school teacher and member of the Wayside Inn History Book Group
Thursday, April 17, 2008 8:00-9:00pm
Location: Longfellow's Wayside Inn
Discussion Leader: Marian Carlson, author of American Genius, a biography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
BOOKLIST
The bibliography provided below is a list of current Longfellow biographies and poetry anthologies. We hope you will join us in rediscovering the importance of this country’s most successful poet!
Applebaum, Stanley (Editor), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Favorite Poems, Dover Publications
A short anthology of Longfellow’s most well-known works, this will be the focal point of all Big Read activities.
Boggs, Colleen Glenney, Transnationalism and American Literature: Literary Translation 1773-1892, Routledge
Calhoun, Charles C., Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life, Beacon Press
Gioia, Dana, Disappearing Ink, Graywolf Press
Irmscher, Christoph, Longfellow Redux, University of Illinois Press
Irmscher, Christoph, Public Poet, Private Man: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at 200, Harvard Library Bulletin, Fall/Winter 2006
McClatchy, J.D. (Editor), Longfellow Poems and Other Writings, Library of America
CHILDREN AND YOUNG ADULT BOOKS
Bing, Christopher (Illustrator), Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, Handprint Books
Hughes, Libby and Marian Carlson, American Genius, iUniverse, Inc.
Lang, Glenna (Illustrator), The Children’s Hour, David R. Godine
Lukes, Bonnie L., Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: America's Beloved Poet, Morgan Reynolds Publishing
Jeffers, Susan, Hiawatha, Puffin Books
Santore, Charles (Illustrator), Paul Revere's Ride: The Landlord's Tale, HarperCollins
Schoonmaker, Frances (Editor), Poetry for Young People, Sterling Publishing