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Change of title

Tales of a Wayside Inn#Composition and publication history says:

Longfellow originally intended to call the collection The Sudbury Tales, but was afraid it sounded too similar to Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and renamed it Tales of a Wayside Inn.^[1]

And a couple of paragraphs on:

When the book was announced for publication, the poet's friend Charles Sumner persuaded him to change the title from The Sudbury Tales to Tales of a Wayside Inn.^[2]^: 165

ISTM that these two statements should be reconciled and combined into a single statement, but I don't have the books and am not a scholar in the field.

References

^ Wagenknecht, Edward. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Portrait of an American Humanist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966: 143.
^ Garfield, Curtis F. and Alison R. Ridley. As Ancient Is This Hostelry: The Story of The Wayside Inn. Sudbury, Massachusetts: Porcupine Enterprises, 1988

Please {{Ping}} me to discuss. --Thnidu (talk) 03:46, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I added that information. I will try to incorporate better. --Midnightdreary (talk) 11:18, 7 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Wagenknecht, Edward. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Portrait of an American Humanist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1966: 143.

[Garfield-2] Garfield, Curtis F. and Alison R. Ridley. As Ancient Is This Hostelry: The Story of The Wayside Inn. Sudbury, Massachusetts: Porcupine Enterprises, 1988

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