The Village Blacksmith A Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A story of the poem and the poet by John William Babin
This book, for middle grades, introduces the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to an audience of young readers. It includes a story about the inspiration that led him to write this timeless classic and a second work titled “From My Arm-Chair”––a poem written to the children of Cambridge, Massachusetts, as gratitude for their gift of a chair.
