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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... writer ; but until mid - life his first profession was the teaching rather than the production of literature , at his alma mater ( 1829-35 ) and then at Harvard ( 1836- 54 ) . His teaching career was punctuated by two extended study ...
... writer ; but until mid - life his first profession was the teaching rather than the production of literature , at his alma mater ( 1829-35 ) and then at Harvard ( 1836- 54 ) . His teaching career was punctuated by two extended study ...
... writer been so discredited by posterity . Yet rarely can we find such a clear - cut case of increased critical ... writing with unprecedented keenness and intensity . Several biases , how- ever , have kept them from giving Longfellow a ...
... writes about disappointed hopes , the need to accommodate oneself to diminished expectations , and the pressures of coping with the fear that the reality of social or personal chaos is more than we can bear . A patriotic ditty like ...
... writer by vocation as opposed to hobby at a time when no one in America had ever made a living by poetry before ... write . This vocational crisis was luckily resolved by the mun- ificence of another Bowdoin trustee , who had been ...
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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