Evangeline and Other Poems (Thrift Editions) - Softcover

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486282554 ISBN 13: 9780486282558

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc., 2003

Synopsis

Includes the memorable "The Skeleton in Armor," "The Arsenal at Springfield," "Mezzo Cammin," "The Rhyme of Sir Christopher" (from Tales of a Wayside Inn), "Aftermath" and "Divina Commedia." Cambridge Edition.

About this title

About the Author:

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in 1807 in Portland, Maine, and he became a professor of modern languages at Harvard. His most famous narrative poems include "The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Revere's Ride", "The Village Blacksmith," "The Wreck of the Hesperus." From his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne, Longfellow got a brief outline of a story from which he composed one of his most favorite poems, "Evangeline." The original story had Evangeline wandering about New England in search of her bridegroom. One of the first poets to take the landscape and stories of North America as his subjects, Longfellow became immensely popular all over the world, and he was the first American commemorated in the Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey. He was given honorary degrees at the great universities of Oxford and Cambridge, invited to Windsor by Queen Victoria, and called by request upon the Prince of Wales. He was also chosen a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0486282554
• ISBN 13: 9780486282558
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 64