...ppeal—to the reader who thinks he knows what to think and to the reader who knows he knows how to feel. It may be gathered from this brief survey of a long life and a productive career that Longfellow 's reputation, in the opinion of the present writer, was amply deserved in the poet's day, and rested in the main on his gifts as a story-teller in verse, on his power to transplant to American litera...