A Henry Wadsworth Longfellow CompanionBloomsbury Academic, 30 Δεκ 2003 - 311 σελίδες Best remembered today as the author of The Song of Hiawatha, Longfellow continues to be one of the most popular poets in American literary history. This book is a guide to his life and writings. A brief introductory essay overviews Longfellow's life and accomplishments. A chronology then summarizes the chief events in his career. Hundreds of alphabetically arranged entries follow, discussing individual poems, his other writings, his family members and professional associates, and topics related to his life and literary achievements. Entries list works for further reading, and the volume closes with a selected, general bibliography. |
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... EVANGELINE ( 1847 ) . Narrative poem . Evangeline : A Tale of Acadie is in two parts , each in five numbered sections . Its verse form is unrhymed dactylic hexameters with consideration variation . The short introduction begins memora ...
... Evangeline , guided and encour- aged by Father Felician , goes by boat , han- dled “ by Acadian boatmen , ” past the Ohio and the Wabash rivers and down " the broad and swift Mississippi . " They pass sands and forests , chutes and ...
... Evangeline would have been fifty - five . It has been suggested that there are certain parallels in the plots of Evangeline and Fri- thiofs Saga by Esaias Tegnér , * the Swedish poet whom Longfellow admired and several of whose works he ...