Evangeline; A Tale of Acadie (Classic Edition) - Softcover

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1434417727 ISBN 13: 9781434417725

Publisher: Wildside Press, 2010

Synopsis

Longfellow's "Evangeline," a tale of star-crossed lovers, begins with one of the most famous lines of poetry every written: "This is the forest primeval . . ."

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

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About this edition

• Publisher: Wildside Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1434417727
• ISBN 13: 9781434417725
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 74