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We personally assess every books quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. He was also the first american to translate dante alighieri s divine comedy and was one of the fireside poets from new england. He was the second child of stephen and zilpah longfellow, and six more children would follow. Henry wadsworth longfellow was americas most beloved nineteenth century poet and is an integral part of our culture today. Henry wadsworth longfellow books, biography, quotes read. Taken as a whole, longfellows writings show a breadth of literary learning, an understanding of western languages and cultures. He was heavily influenced by romanticism and made a name as a poet and novelist with works like hyperion, evangeline, poems on slavery and the song of hiawatha.
First edition, first printing, of longfellow s dramatic poem, inscribed in the year of publication. Longfellow, born in maine in 1807, became an epic poet of sorts for american history, writing about the american revolution in the way bards of old wrote about conquests across europe. Selected poems penguin classics only 7 left in stock more on the way. His father, stephen longfellow, was a portland lawyer and congressman, and mother, zilpah, was the daughter of general peleg wadsworth and a descendant of john alden of the mayflower. Henry wadsworth longfellow biography henry wadsworth longfellow biography and list of works henry wadsworth longfellow books covid19 update april 22, 2020. 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. Get the best deal by comparing prices from over 100,000 booksellers. 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. Somewhat back from the village street the belfry of bruges and other poems songs 1845. He was also the first american to translate dante alighieris divine comedy and was one of the fireside poets from new england. And henry wadsworth longfellow, with his suspenseful narrative verse, deceptively simple structure, and powerful images of 19thcentury united states, makes an especially suitable subject for the critically.
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