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Longfellow Slate ProfileBOOK 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.
Favorite Poems - Blue   Favorite Poems - Tan
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