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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... father's prohibitions against Civil War enlistment and a later projected excursion to Brazil, Ernest Longfellow may have been right from his own angle of vision; but his judgment is as misleading as helpful. Prudent his father surely ...
... father's help Longfellow spent the next three years (1826—29), in France, Spain, Italy, and Germany for what today seems the modest sum of $2,604.24. The outlay proved a good investment. An amazingly quick learner, Longfellow returned ...
... father and then his father-in-law, industrialist Nathan Appleton, who purchased as a wedding present the Cambridge mansion in which the young professor had lived as a boarder. After his literary debut, Longfellow— like most of his major ...
... father from college; “my whole soul burns most ardently for it, and every earthly thought centers in it.” For this reason, and perhaps also because of the quick success of his writing, Longfellow felt much more confident about ...
... Father Felician, Priest and pedagogue both in the village, had taught them their letters Out of the selfsame book, with the hymns of the church and the plain-song. But when the hymn was sung, and the daily lesson completed, Swiftly they ...
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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 | |