Download or read book The Song of Hiawatha written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cross of Snow written by Nicholas A. Basbanes and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major literary biography of America's best-loved nineteenth-century poet, the first in more than fifty years, and a much-needed reassessment for the twenty-first century of a writer whose stature and celebrity were unparalleled in his time, whose work helped to explain America's new world not only to Americans but to Europe and beyond. From the author of On Paper ("Buoyant"--The New Yorker; "Essential"--Publishers Weekly), Patience and Fortitude ("A wonderful hymn"--Simon Winchester), and A Gentle Madness ("A jewel"--David McCullough). In Cross of Snow, the result of more than twelve years of research, including access to never-before-examined letters, diaries, journals, notes, Nicholas Basbanes reveals the life, the times, the work--the soul--of the man who shaped the literature of a new nation with his countless poems, sonnets, stories, essays, translations, and whose renown was so wide-reaching that his deep friendships included Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Julia Ward Howe, and Oscar Wilde. Basbanes writes of the shaping of Longfellow's character, his huge body of work that included translations of numerous foreign works, among them, the first rendering into a complete edition by an American of Dante's Divine Comedy. We see Longfellow's two marriages, both happy and contented, each cut short by tragedy. His first to Mary Storer Potter that ended in the aftermath of a miscarriage, leaving Longfellow devastated. His second marriage to the brilliant Boston socialite--Fanny Appleton, after a three-year pursuit by Longfellow (his "fiery crucible," he called it), and his emergence as a literary force and a man of letters. A portrait of a bold artist, experimenter of poetic form and an innovative translator--the human being that he was, the times in which he lived, the people whose lives he touched, his monumental work and its place in his America and ours.
Download or read book Poems on Slavery written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gaither s Dictionary of Scientific Quotations written by Carl C. Gaither and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 2800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unprecedented collection of 27,000 quotations is the most comprehensive and carefully researched of its kind, covering all fields of science and mathematics. With this vast compendium you can readily conceptualize and embrace the written images of scientists, laymen, politicians, novelists, playwrights, and poets about humankind's scientific achievements. Approximately 9000 high-quality entries have been added to this new edition to provide a rich selection of quotations for the student, the educator, and the scientist who would like to introduce a presentation with a relevant quotation that provides perspective and historical background on his subject. Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations, Second Edition, provides the finest reference source of science quotations for all audiences. The new edition adds greater depth to the number of quotations in the various thematic arrangements and also provides new thematic categories.
Download or read book Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American Genius written by Marian R. Carlson and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life story of Longfellow is full of drama, romance, and tragedy. The poet was born in a small seaport village in Maine. There, he began his dreams, gazing across the vast ocean to Europe. His dreams came true in a very unlikely profession - poetry. His fame reached far and wide, drawing him into the highest circles of society. Though sorrow came with the success, he continued to produce some of his most eloquent works, still quoted 200 years after his birth. Such poems as ""Paul Revere's Ride,"" ""Tales of a Wayside Inn,"" ""Evangeline,"" ""A Psalm of Life,"" ""The Courtship of Miles Standish,"" and ""The Song of Hiawatha"" are some of his more memorable works.
Download or read book Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Portland The Fireside Poet of Maine written by John William Babin and Allan M. Levinsky Herb Adams and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Peleg Wadsworth built his family home on Congress Street in 1786, he could see the Fore River from his front door. The city grew up around the structure as the Wadsworth-Longfellow family flourished and made history within its walls and the fabric of young America's culture and government. Peleg's daughter, Zilpah Wadsworth, married Stephen Longfellow IV on the first floor, and they raised their eight children in the home with love and high standards. Their second-eldest son, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, wrote his first childhood poem there before going on to pen great classics including "Paul Revere's Ride" and Evangeline. Young Henry watched his father help craft the Maine Constitution and experienced revolutionary ideals of his home city. Step inside the historic Longfellow House and explore the city that shaped a beloved American poet.
Download or read book Sunrise on the Hills written by Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voices of the Night written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book American Poetry written by David Caplan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-11 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American poetry's two characteristics -- American English as a poetic resource -- Convention and idiosyncrasy -- Auden and Eliot : two complicating examples -- On the present and future of American poetry.
Download or read book Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Longfellow Heard written by Jon Nappa and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-14 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was enormouslyfamous in his day. Adults and children celebratedhis poems, both in America and abroad.He was the first American poet admitted into the Poets? Corner of Westminster Abbey in England and was renowned for such works as ?Hiawatha,? ?Paul Revere's Ride,? ?Evangeline,? ?Tales of a Way-side Inn? and others. However, his amazing life was wrought with trials and heartaches during an era when America was laboring to grow up without destroying itself in the process.What Longfellow Heard is a powerful telling, in many of the words and musings of the poet himself, of his tragic quest for love and family, his longing for art and fame, and his heartbreaking loss. Discover how his art and faith wrestled within him while he desperately tried to make peace with the tumult of his times. Experience the tragedy of his first marriage, his long road to recovery, and his passion for the woman he pursued for seven years while the nation fractured and his poetry soared.What Longfellow Heard is a novel with pro-found relevance to our modern-day polarization, increasingly clouded national identities, and the universal aching for peace, joy, and purpose in the midst of conflict and confusion.
Download or read book American Literature written by Frank Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Long Life of Evangeline written by Ron McFarland and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-03-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient, Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman's devotion, List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest; List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy." Generations of readers have now accepted the call of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to join his heroine Evangeline in her search for Gabriel, the lover she was separated from during the expulsion of the Acadians from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. This critical history of the book-length poem describes its reception in the weeks and months that followed the 1847 release, explains its continued popularity down through the years, and offers insights on its interpretation and relevance today.
Download or read book John Rollin Ridge written by James W. Parins and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Rollin Ridge is the first full-length biography of a Cherokee whose best revenge was in writing well. A cross between Lord Byron, the romantic poet who made thingsøhappen, and Joaquin Murieta, the legendary bandit he would immortalize, John Rollin Ridge was a controversial, celebrated, and self-cast exile. Ridge was born to a prominent Cherokee Indian family in 1827, a tumultuous and violent time when the state of Georgia was trying to impose its sovereignty on the Cherokee Nation and whites were pressing against its borders. James W. Parins places Ridge in the circle of his family and recreates the circumstances surrounding the assassination of his father (before his eyes) and his grandfather and uncle by rival Cherokees, led by John Ross. Eventful chapters portray the boy?s flight with his mother and her family to Arkansas, his classical education there, his killing of a Ross loyalist and subsequent exile in California during the gold rush, his talent as a romantic poet and author, and his career as a journalist. To the end of his life, Ridge advocated the Cherokees? assimilation into white society.
Download or read book Re creating the American Past written by Richard Guy Wilson and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although individually and collectively Americans have many histories, the dominant view of our national past focuses on the colonial era. The reasons for this are many and complex, touching on stories of the country's origins and of the founding fathers, the privileged position in history granted the thirteen original colonies, and the ways in which the nation has adjusted to change and modernity. But no matter the cause, the result is obvious: images and forms derived from and related to America's colonial past are the single most popular form of cultural expression. Often conceived solely in architectural terms, from the red-brick and white-trimmed buildings that recall eighteenth-century James River estates to the clapboarded saltboxes that recall early New England, Colonial Revival is in fact better understood as a process of remembering. In Re-creating the American Past, architectural historian Richard Guy Wilson and a host of other scholars examine how and why Colonial Revival has persisted in modern times. The volume contains essays that explore Colonial Revival expressions in architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation, decorative arts, and painting and sculpture, as well as the social, intellectual, and cultural background of the phenomena. Based on the University of Virginia's landmark 2000 conference "The Colonial Revival in America," Re-creating the American Past is a comprehensive and handsome volume that recovers the origins, characteristics, diversity, and significance of the Colonial Revival, situating it within the broader history of American design, culture, and society.
