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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... hand and the currents of international visionary romanticism on the other ) as the key father - figure . One reason for reading Longfellow more attentively would be to test the limits of this powerful but reductive critical myth . But ...
... hand understanding of love's frustra- tions and sorrows . Such experiences underlie much of his work , including some jejune stuff like the posturings of the lovesick protagonist in Hyperion , but also his best , like the affectionately ...
... hand , an affair of Edenic Acadias or pristine innocent Pilgrim bands ; grim , threatening , and unstable on the other , an affair of Indian - fighting and of encroachments on bucolic happi- ness by conquistadors or Puritan oligarchs ...
... hand , " The Birds of Killingworth , " which the poet tells , is by contrast a cheerful comic fable of error followed by regen- eration in a Connecticut town whose overpragmatic farmers find they have made a dreadful mistake in ignoring ...
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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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