Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Poems
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Cross of Snow
Author: Nicholas A. BasbanesPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 1101875143
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
A major literary biography of America's best-loved nineteenth-century poet, the first in more than fifty years, and a much-needed reassessment for the twenty-first century of a writer whose stature and celebrity were unparalleled in his time, whose work helped to explain America's new world not only to Americans but to Europe and beyond. From the author of On Paper ("Buoyant"--The New Yorker; "Essential"--Publishers Weekly), Patience and Fortitude ("A wonderful hymn"--Simon Winchester), and A Gentle Madness ("A jewel"--David McCullough). In Cross of Snow, the result of more than twelve years of research, including access to never-before-examined letters, diaries, journals, notes, Nicholas Basbanes reveals the life, the times, the work--the soul--of the man who shaped the literature of a new nation with his countless poems, sonnets, stories, essays, translations, and whose renown was so wide-reaching that his deep friendships included Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Julia Ward Howe, and Oscar Wilde. Basbanes writes of the shaping of Longfellow's character, his huge body of work that included translations of numerous foreign works, among them, the first rendering into a complete edition by an American of Dante's Divine Comedy. We see Longfellow's two marriages, both happy and contented, each cut short by tragedy. His first to Mary Storer Potter that ended in the aftermath of a miscarriage, leaving Longfellow devastated. His second marriage to the brilliant Boston socialite--Fanny Appleton, after a three-year pursuit by Longfellow (his "fiery crucible," he called it), and his emergence as a literary force and a man of letters. A portrait of a bold artist, experimenter of poetic form and an innovative translator--the human being that he was, the times in which he lived, the people whose lives he touched, his monumental work and its place in his America and ours.
Poems
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher: Dutton Adult
ISBN: 9780460003827
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
The hanging of the crane [from The masque of Pandora and other poems].
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Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Poems on Slavery
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
A Psalm of Life
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Poetical Works ...
Author: William WordsworthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Paul Revere's Ride
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
The Children's Hour
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780879239718
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Of all of Longfellow's beloved poems (and there are many) none is so personal, so sunny, or so touching as this affectionate love letter to his three daughters, "grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with the golden hair." Longfellow's happiest hours were spent writing on a cluttered desk by the south window of his beloved Craigie House, an imposing mansion still preserved on Cambridge's famous Brattle Street. It was here that most of the action takes place (except for his literary reference, and brief excursion, to the "Mouse-Tower on the Rhine"), here that his daughters come creeping down the stairs to beard the gentle, genial poet in his lair. Lang's luminous illustrations perfectly capture the happy atmosphere of that house, the author's affections for his daughters, and the painterly quality of his verse. This book for young readers presents one of the sweetest poems in the English language, her newly illustrated, beautifully presented, and now available to a new generation of readers.
The Courtship of Miles Standish
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description