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This book is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1872 work, "The Christus: A Mystery". Written during the latter portion of his productive career, it concerns "various aspects of Christendom in the Apostolic, Middle, and Modern Ages". This volume is highly recommended for those with an interest in religious history, and constitutes a must-have for collectors of Longfellow's seminal work. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was an American poet and member of the Fireside Poets. He famously translated Dante Alighieri's "The Divine Comedy", being the first American to do so. Many classic books such as this are becoming increasingly rare and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.
About the author
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882), the most popular American poet in the 19th century, was known for such works as Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha, and Paul Revere's Ride. He was one of the fireside poets, a group of 19th-century American poets from New England, whose poems about morality were very popular in the United States and overseas till the beginning of the 20th century.
