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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... fear that the reality of social or personal chaos is more than we can bear . A patriotic ditty like " Paul Revere's Ride " is less characteristic of Longfel- low's voice than poems like " The Slave Singing at X INTRODUCTION.
... fears . So too in 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 ...
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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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