The Village Blacksmith

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For the John Ford film, see The Village Blacksmith (film).

"The Village Blacksmith" is a poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

[edit] Origins

Longfellow said the poem was inspired by his ancestor Stephen Longfellow, who had been a blacksmith, a schoolmaster, then a town clerk in Portland, Maine.[1]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Nelson, Randy F. The Almanac of American Letters. Los Altos, California: William Kaufmann, Inc., 1981: 226. ISBN 086576008X

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