Download or read book Reconsidering Longfellow written by Christoph Irmscher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconsidering Longfellow is the first collection of scholarly essays in several decades devoted entirely to the work and afterlife of the most popular and widely read writer in American literature. The essays, written by a new generation of Longfellow scholars, cover the entire range of Longfellow’s work, from the early poetry to the wildly successful epics of his middle period (Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha) to his Chaucerian collection of stories published after the Civil War, Tales of a Wayside Inn. Separate contributions discuss Longfellow’s financial dealings, his preoccupation with his children, and his interest in the visual arts, as well as the tremendous role his poetry did and will once again play in American literature classrooms in the U.S. All essays were written specifically for the volume. Many of them rely on unpublished archival sources from the Longfellow collections at the Longfellow House-George Washington National Historic Site and at Houghton Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Download or read book Henry W Longfellow Reconsidered written by Joseph Chesley Mathews and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow written by Samuel Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Volume One written by Samuel Longfellow and published by The Minerva Group, Inc.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by his brother contains abundant material for a full survey of the poets life and career.This is the life of a man of letters. Mr. Longfellow was not that exclusively, but he was that supremely. He touched life at many points; and certainly he was no bookworm or dry-as-dust scholar shut up in a library. He kept the doors of his study always open, both literally and figuratively. But literature, as it was his earliest ambition, was always his most real interest; it was his constant point of view; it was his chosen refuge.
Download or read book Who Killed American Poetry written by Karen L. Kilcup and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the 19th century, American poetry was a profoundly populist literary form. It circulated in New England magazines and Southern newspapers; it was read aloud in taverns, homes, and schools across the country. Antebellum reviewers envisioned poetry as the touchstone democratic genre, and their Civil War–era counterparts celebrated its motivating power, singing poems on battlefields. Following the war, however, as criticism grew more professionalized and American literature emerged as an academic subject, reviewers increasingly elevated difficult, dispassionate writing and elite readers over their supposedly common counterparts, thereby separating “authentic” poetry for intellectuals from “popular” poetry for everyone else.\ Conceptually and methodologically unique among studies of 19th-century American poetry, Who Killed American Poetry? not only charts changing attitudes toward American poetry, but also applies these ideas to the work of representative individual poets. Closely analyzing hundreds of reviews and critical essays, Karen L. Kilcup tracks the century’s developing aesthetic standards and highlights the different criteria reviewers used to assess poetry based on poets’ class, gender, ethnicity, and location. She shows that, as early as the 1820s, critics began to marginalize some kinds of emotional American poetry, a shift many scholars have attributed primarily to the late-century emergence of affectively restrained modernist ideals. Mapping this literary critical history enables us to more readily apprehend poetry’s status in American culture—both in the past and present—and encourages us to scrutinize the standards of academic criticism that underwrite contemporary aesthetics and continue to constrain poetry’s appeal. Who American Killed Poetry? enlarges our understanding of American culture over the past two hundred years and will interest scholars in literary studies, historical poetics, American studies, gender studies, canon criticism, genre studies, the history of criticism, and affect studies. It will also appeal to poetry readers and those who enjoy reading about American cultural history.
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 458 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 1886 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Longfellow written by Charles C. Calhoun and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles C. Calhoun's Longfellow gives life, at last, to the most popular American poet who ever lived, a nineteenth-century cultural institution of extraordinary influence and the "one poet average, nonbookish Americans still know by heart" (Dana Gioia). Calhoun's Longfellow emerges as one of America's first powerful cultural makers: a poet and teacher who helped define Victorian culture; a major conduit for European culture coming into America; a catalyst for the Colonial Revival movement in architecture and interior design; and a critic of both Puritanism and the American obsession with material success. Longfellow is also a portrait of a man in advance of his time in championing multiculturalism: He popularized Native American folklore; revived the Evangeline story (the foundational myth of modern Acadian and Cajun identity in the U.S. and Canada); wrote powerful poems against slavery; and introduced Americans to the languages and literatures of other lands. Calhoun's portrait of post-Revolutionary Portland, Maine, where Longfellow was born, and of his time at Bowdoin and Harvard Colleges, show a deep and imaginative grasp of New England cultural history. Longfellow's tragic romantic life-his first wife dies tragically early, after a miscarriage, and his second wife, Fannie Appleton, dies after accidentally setting herself on fire-is illuminated, and his intense friendship with abolitionist and U.S. senator Charles Sumner is given as a striking example of mid-nineteenth-century romantic friendship between men. Finally, Calhoun paints in vivid detail Longfellow's family life at Craigie House, including stories of the poet's friends-Hawthorne, Emerson, Dickens, Fanny Kemble, Julia Ward Howe, and Oscar Wilde among them.
Download or read book The Heroines of Henry Longfellow written by Timothy E.G. Bartel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poems are filled with powerful heroines, from Evangeline, the exiled wanderer, to Vittoria Colonna, the aging genius of the Italian renaissance. In The Heroines of Henry Longfellow: Domestic, Defiant, Divine, Timothy E. G. Bartel provides a survey of Longfellow’s major heroines, placing them in the context of Longfellow’s body of work and the poet’s interests in theology, politics, and history. Though Longfellow’s heroines have sometimes been dismissed as mere domestic caricatures, Bartel argues that Longfellow’s heroines are nothing of the sort. Instead, they provide us with unique pictures of how one’s individual talents and desires can be harmonized with the Christian ideals of communal justice, ethical living, and ultimate union with the Divine.
Download or read book Longfellow written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moments with Longfellow written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 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 Longfellow in Love written by Edward M. Cifelli and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-08-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After four years travelling through Europe and a yearlong romance with Giulia Persiani in Rome, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow came back home in 1829 and fell in love again, this time with Mary Storer Potter, whom he married in 1831. They travelled together to England and Scandinavia in 1834 but their happiness was cut short when she died in 1835. In 1836, traveling in Switzerland, he met the woman who would become the grand passion of his life, 18-year old Fanny Appleton of Boston. But she, a wealthy textile heiress, was not interested in settling down with a Harvard professor. She rebuffed his advances for six years—then suddenly changed her mind and married him on July 13, 1843. For the next 18 years they were “America’s couple,” and Longfellow became America’s poet—and then tragedy struck once again.
Download or read book Henry W Longfellow written by William Sloane Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow with Bibliographical and Critical Notes written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History Abolition and the Ever Present Now in Antebellum American Writing written by Jeffrey Insko and published by Oxford Studies in American Lit. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History, Abolition, and the Ever-Present Now in Antebellum American Writing examines the meaning and possibilities of the present and its relationship to history and historicity in a number of literary texts; specifically, the writings of several figures in antebellum US literary historysome, but not all of whom, associated with the period's romantic movement. Focusing on nineteenth-century writers who were impatient for social change, like those advocating for the immediate emancipation of slaves, as opposed to those planning for a gradual end to slavery, the book recovers some of the political force of romanticism. Through close readings of texts by Washington Irving, John Neal, Catharine Sedgwick, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Herman Melville, the book argues that these writers practiced forms of literary historiography that treat the past as neither a reflection of present interests nor as an irretrievably distant 'other', but as a complex and open-ended interaction between the two. In place of a fixed and linear past, these writers imagine history as an experience rooted in a fluid, dynamic, and ever-changing present. The political, philosophical, and aesthetic disposition Insko calls 'romantic presentism' insists upon the present as the fundamental sphere of human action and experience-and hence of ethics and democratic possibility.
Download or read book The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
