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Poem of the Day: ‘The Children’s Hour’

Sentimentality — a specialty of Longfellow — is over-criticized these days, when it is, at its best, an extravagant gesture toward true emotion.

'Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,' detail, by Ernest Longfellow, 1876.
'Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,' detail, by Ernest Longfellow, 1876. Via Wikimedia Commons

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