Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the most quintessentially American of all American poets, wrote an entire corpus inspired by early and medieval Christian theology. Longfellow drew his literary symbolism and characters’ virtues from early Church Fathers such as St. John Chrysostom. In current discourse on his work, overshadowed by blanket patterns of domestic-sphere ideology and gender essentialism, the…

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