The Children's Own Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (9780618118540)

The Children's Own Longfellow

by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Paperback - English

This handsome volume contains eight of the most popular of Longfellow's poems, including "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "The Village Blacksmith," "Paul Revere's Ride," and excerpts from "The Song of Hiawatha."

This title has been selected as a Common Core Text Exemplar (Grades 6-8, Poetry)

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

0618118543

EAN

9780618118540

Publisher

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN BOOKS FOR YOU

Publication Date

30 Apr 2001

Pages

Weight (kg)

0.14

Dimensions (cm)

20.2 x 13.7 x 0.8

About 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 Reveres 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 b