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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... Song of Hiawatha ( 1855 ) , The Courtship of Miles Standish ( 1858 ) , and Tales of a Wayside Inn ( 1863 , 1872 , 1873 ) . Versatile as well as prolific , Longfellow also won fame as a writer of short ballads and lyrics , and ...
... Song of Hiawatha ( 1855 ) , The Courtship of Miles Standish ( 1858 ) , and Tales of a Wayside Inn ( 1863 , 1872 , 1873 ) . Versatile as well as prolific , Longfellow also won fame as a writer of short ballads and lyrics , and ...
... 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 : Paul Revere's Ride 148 The Theologian's Tale ...
... song implies a more complicated inner reality ( " a feeling of sadness ... That my soul cannot resist " ) . Read attentively , the poem expresses Longfellow's version of Frost's dictum that a poem provides " a momentary stay against ...
... Song of Hiawatha ( 1855 ) , Finnish ; for his Tales of a Way- side Inn ( 1863 ) , Chaucer ; for his theological - historical tril- ogy , Christus : A Mystery ( 1872 ) , Dante ; for the meter of his two most enduring long poems ...
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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