Selected PoemsPenguin, 1988 M01 1 - 432 páginas
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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... question; even if one accepts them, they do not fit Longfellow so well as is commonly thought. Those who come to him with open minds find his work considerably more interesting than they Title Page Copyright Page Introduction.
... Come In,” and other lyrics) is the desire not to probe too deeply into the dark side of existence. In an easy but provocative role reversal, the poem's exhausted speaker makes as if to waive his usual responsibility as the reader's ...
... come in contact with other minds,” and not just through books. “If he would describe the world, he should live in the world.” In the same spirit, Longfellow never felt any of the Transcendentalist squeamishness at the descent to the ...
... come by the story of the Acadians through the agency of his friend and classmate Hawthorne. Fitting that Hawthorne took note of it in the first place, because his work is full of tales of passion repressed or displaced by forces beyond ...
... come across as wordy and wooden as contrasted with the stately, sonorous narrative words. Longfellow was unfortunately much less successful in what ironically became his most famous long narrative poem, The Song of Hiawatha. Here, as in ...
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FROM THE SONG OF HIAWATHA | |
THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH | |
FROM TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN | |
THE NEW ENGLAND TRAGEDIES | |
FINALE SAINT JOHN | |
A PSALM OF LIFE WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO | |
THE SLAVE SINGING AT MIDNIGHT | |