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Selected Poems (Everyman) - Softcover

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

 
9780460872294: Selected Poems (Everyman)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 046087229X ISBN 13: 9780460872294
Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 1993

Synopsis

This book is part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction and a chronology of the life and times of the poet. Including his best known poem "Hiawatha", this selection of Longfellow's poems spans the whole of his life. Overcoming his grief at the death of his wife, Longfellow wrote some of his most moving and honest poems, including "Palingenesis" and "The Cross of Snow". His later poems draw on his memories of childhood on the northeast coast and include such poems as "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls".

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About the Author

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was the most popular and admired American poet of the nineteenth century. Born in Portland, Maine, and educated at Bowdoin College, Longfellow's ambition was always to become a writer; but until mid-life his first profession was the teaching rather than the production of literature, at his alma mater (1829-35) and then at Harvard (1836-54). His teaching career was punctuated by two extended study-tours of Europe, during which Longfellow made himself fluent in all the major Romance and Germanic languages. Thanks to a fortunate marriage and the growing popularity of his work, from his mid-thirties onwards Longfellow, ensconced in a comfortable Cambridge mansion, was able to devote an increasingly large fraction of his energies to the long narrative historical and mythic poems that made him a household word, especially Evangeline (1847), The Song of Hiawatha (1855), The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), and Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863, 1872, 1873). Versatile as well as prolific, Longfellow also won fame as a writer of short ballads and lyrics, and experimented in the essay, the short story, the novel, and the verse drama. Taken as a whole, Longfellow's writings show a breadth of literary learning, an understanding of western languages and cultures, unmatched by any American writer of his time.

Synopsis

This book is part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins and easy-to-read type and includes a themed introduction and a chronology of the life and times of the poet. Including his best known poem "Hiawatha", this selection of Longfellow's poems spans the whole of his life. Overcoming his grief at the death of his wife, Longfellow wrote some of his most moving and honest poems, including "Palingenesis" and "The Cross of Snow". His later poems draw on his memories of childhood on the northeast coast and include such poems as "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls".

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Publisher
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Publication date
1993
Language
English
ISBN 10 
046087229X
ISBN 13 
9780460872294
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
336
Editor
Thwaite Anthony