Strolling around Disneyland this summer, re-acquainting myself with Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh, Mister Toad, Simba, and so on, the following reflection occurred to me: that these strange imagined ...

Earlier 20th-century biographies -- with the exception of Laurance Thompson’s somewhat overwrought Young Longfellow in 1938 -- were rewritings of the Rev. Samuel Longfellow’s three-volume memorial ...