Listening is a magnetic and strange thing,
a creative force.
—Karl Menninger

This page contains an easy-to-find reference to all of Layne Longfellow's informational and musical offerings.

General Information:

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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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About Longfellow Reads Henry W. Longfellow

Overview
  History Meets Coincidence
    Music & Poetry
      About the Recordings
  Adaptation & Reaction
    Longfellow & The Listener
      A Dream That Would Not Die

The Artists:

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Layne Longfellow
      Michael Hoppe

The CD:

  Purchase the CD
    Reaction to Longfellow Reads Longfellow
      Reviews & Endorsements

The Music:

  The Song of Hiawatha
  The Fire of Drift-Wood
    The Castle-Builder
      The Quadroon Girl
        The Children's Hour
      The Cross of Snow
    The Tides
  My Lost Youth
  Mezzo Cammin
  Sonnet 1 (Preface to Dante's Inferno)
  The Slave's Dream
    Sonnet 4 (Preface to Dante's Purgatorio)
      Three Friends of Mine
  Tales of a Wayside Inn
  The Broken Oar
The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
The Meeting
  Evangeline