On Christmas Day 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sat in his chair at his writing table and began a poem. “I heard the bells on Christmas Day / Their old, familiar carols play, / and wild and sweet / ...

This poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow may be familiar to you because English organist John Baptiste Calkin set it to music in 1872, calling the rendering, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.” What ...

On Christmas day, 1863, the American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sat at his desk in his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts and wrote the haunting poem that we know as “I Heard the Bells on ...

‘Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: / ‘God is not dead, nor doth He sleep,’” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow proclaims in the tremendous final verse of his 1865 Civil War poem “Christmas Bells.” We ...

The carol that we now know as “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” was originally a poem called “Christmas Bells” written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow during the Civil War. It is a song of hope that ...

One of the most well-known American poets, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, penned the words to the familiar Christmas carol, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day,” which was adapted from his 1864 poem, ...

(Parts of this column were first published as an editorial in the York Daily Record/Sunday News at Christmas in 2014) American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote to a friend in 1863: “I have been ...

Few people can think about “Christmas bells” without humming along to the classic carol. However, the original poem the carol is based on has verses directly about the American Civil War that have ...

I think the implicit message of this correcting e-mail from Caitlin Hopkins is that the Atlantic, of all magazines, shouldn't mess with Longfellow: Please note that "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day ...