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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... close . If we overlook this struggle between melancholy undertone and surface regulation , we impoverish the poem . " The Day Is Done " is typical in this respect . Longfellow continually writes about disappointed hopes , the need to ...
... close ) , the sonnet “ Na- ture , " and the elegies to his wife and to Hawthorne . Though most of Longfellow's lyrics have deservedly been forgotten , his best stands up well by comparison to the best mid - cen- tury Anglo - American ...
... close study ) has eroded , and rightly so . We now recognize that the period's " serious " authors were by no means above the marketplace , and that " popular " writing was often undertaken with a deep sense of mission and continues in ...
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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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