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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... stand for the entire modem era and gave no shred of comfort that the virtue of Charity was being fulfilled in our times. Longfellow's cantankerousness would have seemed all the greater for the fact that the work was issued in the ...
... stands at the threshold of the more ambitious work of the 1840s and after. In the shorter lyric as well, Longfellow produced his most haunting, densely packed achievements after mid-life: ”The Fire of Drift-Wood,“ ”The Jewish Cemetery ...
... stand on their own, it is not amiss to read each as commenting on its predecessors. In this way, as in Evangeline, Longfellow obliquely but probingly conducts a series of reflections on the spirit of the times. The latter two pieces ...
... stands at the head of the line. No one can fully comprehend the literary culture of nineteenthcentury America without coming to terms with his work, and those who come to it for the first time are likely to be surprised at how absorbing ...
... Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail ...
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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 | |