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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... death he was the most popular poet in the English-speaking world. In our century, however, Longfellow's reputation has plunged as a result of the kind of overreaction that often follows an excess of fame. Taught to memorize Longfellow ...
... death. The starkness of the tragedy of two agonized, unfulfilled lives is partially offset by the sublimation of their suffering into patterned, parallel action and by the neatness of their reunion at Gabriel's deathbed, a scene both ...
... death after miscarriage during his second European trip (1835); he endured years of frustration (1836—42) before his second wife-to-be consented to return his quixotic passion with anything more than friendship; and after nearly twenty ...
... death. It was fitting that he should have 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 ...
... death, and although the work of his final decade represents, overall, a decline in quality, the best of it deserves to be known. One substantial poem of intermediate length is printed here. Morituri Salutamus (1875), delivered by ...
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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 | |