Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Fiction, Contemporary Romance by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (9781587159145)

Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Fiction, Contemporary Romance

by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Paperback - English

The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians. The idea for the poem came from Longfellow's friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Longfellow used dactylic hexameter, imitating Greek and Latin classics, though the choice was criticized. It became Longfellow's most famous work in his lifetime and remains one of his most popular and enduring works.

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ADDITIONAL INFO

ISBN

1587159147

EAN

9781587159145

Publisher

BORGO PR

Publication Date

01 Jul 2002

Pages

120

Weight (kg)

0.19

Dimensions (cm)

23.1 x 15.5 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