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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Website Evaluators
Mary Marshall – Falls Church High School, Virginia
Mary Kathryn Stein – Fuller Junior High School, Arkansas Website Reviewer and Compiler Sherry Medwin – New Trier High School, Illinois Site Ratings
1 – Poor 2 – Fair 3 – Good 4 - Excellent Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/longfellow.html Designed by a retired Auburn University technology instructor, this site provides direct links to
"an extensive collection" of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poems. One link connects visitors to the Gutenburg Project, an online repository of electronic texts, including the complete poems of Longfellow.
Although this is a "pretty basic site," it could be a "valuable resource" for teachers or students who want to locate a Longfellow poem.
Overall Rating: 2
The Selected Poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/authors/longfel.html
Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto, this site features links to thirty Longfellow poems, as well as a
brief biographical sketch of the author. Other links direct students to poetry criticism and to a "representative poetry" index, which could be an "excellent resource."
Navigating the links at the top of the page allows students or teachers to search the index by poet, by title, by keyword, by date, or by first line. The "Criticism on Poetry" link yields a
scholarly menu that serves up both prose and verse criticism -- all pre-twentieth century. Because it is "text heavy," with no visual appeal, the site is "most useful for advanced students
and/or college students."
Overall Rating: 2 Island of Freedom Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
http://www.island-of-freedom.com/LONG.HTM A black and white portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow greets visitors to this "colorful" and "basic" site. Links to seven well-known
Longfellow poems and a brief biography are the main fare here, but readers looking for enrichment or diversion can also jump to "similar pages about poets from Homer to W.H. Auden" or to a quotations link that
features someone's favorite quotes from various poets. The bibliography references two encyclopedias, suggesting that this would be a "good reference for a junior high school student."
Overall Rating: 2
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
http://www.georgetown.edu/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/longfell.html An introduction to a recent anthology of Longfellow's less popular poetry,
this single page site notes that "the Longfellow of this anthology is our late twentieth-century 'revisionist' Longfellow. Written for a college course, this Georgetown site contains "teaching
notes" on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "including issues a teacher might facing in presenting the poet to students." The suggested classroom assignment invites students to compare Longfellow's views of
America with Emerson's and Whitman's, or to measure his views of nature against those of the native poets. "Appropriate for a college instructor or an advanced high school literature teacher," this
site highlights Longfellow's "major themes, artistic conventions, questions for reading, and historical perspectives."
Overall Rating: 1.5 |
