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Evangeline describes the betrothal of a fictional Acadian girl named Evangeline Bellefontaine to her beloved, Gabriel Lajeunesse, and their separation as the British deport the Acadians from Acadie in the Great Upheaval.
Ye who believe in affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient, Ye who believe in the beauty and strength of woman's devotion, List to the mournful tradition still sung by the pines of the forest; List to a Tale of Love in Acadie, home of the happy. Part the First.
…was more at home in Evangeline (1847), a narrative poem that reached almost every literate home in the United States. It is a sentimental tale of two lovers separated when British soldiers expel the Acadians (French colonists) from what is now Nova Scotia. The lovers, Evangeline and Gabriel, are reunited… Read More; illustrated edition by ...
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem by 19th-century American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The first epic by an American author, it was published in 1847 and immediately became extremely popular.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first epic poem, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie, published in 1847, is a story of loss and devotion set against the deportation of the Acadian people in 1755.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. One of the best known works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Published in 1847, this epic poem tells the story of an Arcadian woman from what is now Nova Scotia,...
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Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie tells the story, in unrhymed verse, of the young and beautiful Evangeline and the noble Gabriel Lajeunesse, childhood friends living in Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia. The two are members of a peaceful farming community that embodies all the values of virtuous rural life held dear by the Victorian audience for whom the ...
Complete summary of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of Evangeline.
Feb 7, 2006 · Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (Boston, 1847), a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. In 1841 he had heard the story of young lovers parted by the deportation of the Acadians, to be reunited only at the end of their lives.
