LITERATURE
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

(4) 4-6 Illustrated by Christopher Bing. Bing illustrates this poem as a military operation, performed in stealth and carried out as one vital piece of a complex tactical maneuver. As in Casey at the Bat, Bing uses the physical book to evoke a historical period as well as to record it, but here detail rides roughshod over coherence. Appended explanatory notes provide historical background, sometimes contradicting the text, sometimes complementing it. Bib.

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