Of all of Longfellows beloved poems and there are many none is so personalso sunny or so touching as this affectionate love letter to his threedaughters grave A... » 

Of all of Longfellows beloved poems and there are many none is so personalso sunny or so touching as this affectionate love letter to his threedaughters grave Alice and laughing Allegra and Edith with the golden hair.Longfellows happiest hours were spent writing on a cluttered desk by the southwindow of his beloved Craigie House an imposing mansion still preserved onCambridges famous Brattle Street. It was here that most of the action takesplace except for his literary reference and brief excursion to the MouseTower on the Rhine here that his daughters come creeping down the stairs tobeard the gentle genial poet in his lair. Langs luminous illustrationsperfectly capture the happy atmosphere of that house the authors affectionsfor his daughters and the painterly quality of his verse. This book for youngreaders presents one of the sweetest poems in the English language her newlyillustrated beautifully presented and now available to a new generati «