Selected PoemsPenguin, 1988 M01 1 - 432 pages
Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works—Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha—as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems. |
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... American poet of the nine- teenth century . Born in Portland , Maine , and educated at Bowdoin College , Longfellow's ambition was always to become a writer ; but until mid - life his first profession was the teaching rather than the ...
... American poet of the nine- teenth century . Born in Portland , Maine , and educated at Bowdoin College , Longfellow's ambition was always to become a writer ; but until mid - life his first profession was the teaching rather than the ...
... American in- stitution . Today , he is apt to be dismissed unread as a symbol of the superficial imitation of fashionable European models that the truly important nineteenth - century American poets- Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson ...
... American traits of a work as the main ground of discussion and praise . In short , Long- fellow has fared badly within a critical framework that is scholarly ( the fondness for intricacy ) , modernist ( the equa- tion of alienated ...
... American literature have been less interested in the conservative aesthetics of restraint than in the comparatively radical - experimental aes- thetics of visionary romanticism . According to the present orthodox version of American ...
Contents
V | xxxiii |
VI | 71 |
VII | 86 |
VIII | 142 |
IX | 161 |
X | 315 |
XI | 325 |
XII | 329 |
XX | 350 |
XXI | 351 |
XXII | 353 |
XXIII | 355 |
XXIV | 358 |
XXV | 361 |
XXVI | 364 |
XXVII | 366 |
XIII | 335 |
XIV | 339 |
XV | 341 |
XVI | 342 |
XVII | 343 |
XVIII | 345 |
XIX | 348 |
XXVIII | 367 |
XXIX | 369 |
XXX | 370 |
XXXI | 371 |
XXXII | 372 |
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