This author exclaimed "Life is real!
The title character of a poem by this author owns a copy of Caesar's Commentaries and hangs the severed head of an enemy on the roof of a fort. He wrote a poem about a youth who dies climbing the Alps while carrying a banner with a "strange device" emblazoned with the title Latin word. This author exclaimed "Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal" in a poem encouraging the reader to "leave behind footprints on the sands of time." This poet of "Excelsior" and "A Psalm of Life" included the retort "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?" in his poem about the title character's love triangle with Priscilla and John Alden. For 10 points, name this 19th-century American poet of "The Courtship of Miles Standish."
The title character of a poem by this author owns a copy of Caesar's Commentaries and hangs the severed head of an enemy on the roof of a fort.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow &lt;Mehr&gt;