But any poet today who shared Longfellow’s taste would be laughed out of the room. He wanted heroism; we want the ordinary. He wanted grand dramas; we want insightful understatement. He wanted music; we want images.
Over at the Ploughshares blog, Tim Ellison writes about wandering through Boston with American poetry in his mind.
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