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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... 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 as school-children, our grandparents considered him ...
... speak to the American people in language they could understand. Longfellow's exuberance in the passage just quoted reflected his success with magazine lyrics and his first collected volume, Voices of the Night (1839), soon to be ...
... speaking well of Emerson's Divinity School Address, and he became a quietly committed anti-slavery man before Emerson or Thoreau, even publishing an early series of Poems on Slavery (1842) without regard for the animosity he knew it ...
... speak, but findeth no language; All his thoughts were congealed into lines on his face, as the vapors Freeze in fantastic shapes on the window-panes in the winter. Then Evangeline lighted the brazen lamp on the table, Filled, till it ...
... weight of the heavy heart in his bosom. But with a smile and a sigh, she clasped his neck and embraced him, Speaking words of endearment where words of comfort availed not. Thus to the Gaspereau's mouth moved on that mournful procession.
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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 | |