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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... Evangeline , A Tale of Acadie ( 1847 ) From The Song of Hiawatha ( 1855 ) III . Hiawatha's Childhood V. Hiawatha's Fasting 3 The Courtship of Miles Standish ( 1858 ) 77 83 92 From Tales of a Wayside Inn ( 1863 ) The Landlord's Tale ...
... Evangeline , a poem based on the communal and personal tragedy of the uprooting of a Nova Scotian settlement of Acadian French by the British military during the French and Indian War . The event is horrifying , but the horror is ...
... Evangeline ( 1847 ) and The Courtship of Miles Standish ( 1858 ) , Homer and Virgil . A good deal of the rest of his poetic output consisted of translations from many languages ( The Divine Comedy being his most ambitious project ) or ...
... Evangeline ( 1847 ) , was his greatest success yet ( six printings in nine weeks ) , thanks in good part to the promotional efforts of his editor , James G. Fields , for whom the acquisition of Longfellow was the first major step in the ...
... Evangeline , America's first best - seller in verse since Mi- chael Wigglesworth's The Day of Doom ( 1662 ) , consolidated Longfellow's poetic fame , made it possible for him to con- template retirement from teaching without loss of ...
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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