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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... once noted, “all deep impressions are silent ones. I like to live on, and enjoy them, without telling those around me that I do enjoy them.” Remarks like these suggest that the image of Longfellow as a comfortable, reassuring white ...
... first book,” as Longfellow put it. “I mean to say, one book among all others which in early youth fascinates his imagination, and at once excites and satisfies the desires of his mind. To me, this first book was The Sketch.
... once grumbled with uncharacteristic testiness, “by a useless and foolish correspondence, till in my despair I curse Cadmus for inventing letters.” The most notable consequence to Longfellow's literary career was the fate of the work ...
... once he ranges more than a few score miles from Man hattan, so with Longfellow. Although his experiment failed by any exacting standard, at least it was vigorous enough to establish itself, along with James Fenimore Cooper's novels ...
... Once in an ancient city, whose name I no longer remember, Raised aloft on a column, a brazen statue of Justice Stood in the public square, upholding the scales in its left hand, And in its right a sword, as an emblem that justice ...
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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 | |