Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The Seaside and the Fireside
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
The Seaside and the Fireside
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781515127666
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Longfellow experimented with many forms, including hexameter and free verse. His published poetry shows great versatility, using anapestic and trochaic forms, blank verse, heroic couplets, ballads and sonnets. Typically, Longfellow would carefully consider the subject of his poetic ideas for a long time before deciding on the right metrical form for it. Much of his work is recognized for its melody-like musicality. As he says, "what a writer asks of his reader is not so much to like as to listen." As a very private man, Longfellow did not often add autobiographical elements to his poetry. Two notable exceptions are dedicated to the death of members of his family. "Resignation," written as a response to the death of his daughter Fanny in 1848, does not use first-person pronouns and is instead a generalized poem of mourning. The death of his second wife Frances, as biographer Charles Calhoun wrote, deeply affected Longfellow personally but "seemed not to touch his poetry, at least directly." His memorial poem to her, a sonnet called "The Cross of Snow," was not published in his lifetime. Longfellow often used didacticism in his poetry, though he focused on it less in his later years. Much of his poetry imparts cultural and moral values, particularly focused on promoting life as being more than material pursuits. Longfellow also often used allegory in his work. In "Nature," for example, death is depicted as bedtime for a cranky child. Many of the metaphors he used in his poetry as well as subject matter came from legends, mythology, and literature.
The Seaside and the Fireside by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Evangeline
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Seaside and the Fireside
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
The Golden Legend
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
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The Building of the Ship
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781017185577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Favorite Poems
Author: Henry Wadsworth LongfellowPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048615355X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
Choice collection includes the long narrative poem, "The Courtship of Miles Standish," plus such famous works as "The Village Blacksmith," "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "Paul Revere's Ride," many more.