Tales of a Wayside Inn

Name: Tales of a Wayside Inn
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Frame narrative poem featuring diverse stories told by travelers at an inn

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American poet who was the most popular poet in the nineteenth-century United States. Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha, and Paul Revere's Ride are beloved narrative poems that shaped American mythology.

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