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Longfellow is to...

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Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

Source: The Flowering of New England.
-- Van Wyck Brooks, (Feb 16 1886-1963), US literary critic, cultural historian; He saw literature as an outgrowth of a national culture; wrote America's Coming of Age, 1915.


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