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Frost And Longfellow

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...American schoolchildren learned where many popular sayings originated, such as “’Ships that pass in the night,’ ‘footprints in the sands of time,’ ‘the patter of little feet,’ ‘Let the dead Past bury the dead,’” and many more (Will 68). These phrases, which are so familiar, were all coined by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the most popular American poet of the early nineteenth century. Another great American poet was Robert Frost. One of Frost’s ambitions was to “’a lodge a few poems where they will be hard to get rid of’” (in the national consciousness) and he certainly succeeded (Morrow 69). During his 1960 presidential campaign, John F. Kennedy ended a speech by quoting Frost, saying, “’But I have miles to go before I sleep’” (Morrow 69). As the continued presence of these poets in the national consciousness indicates, the legacies of Longfellow and Frost both hold pivotal places in American literary history.
The following examination of these legacies will first of all place these poets within the context of...

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