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5 days ago · ch as The song of Hiawatha and Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie. Many of his shorter poems I learned by heart. His naturalistic, narrative, and deeply psychological views on the world had a profound influence on me and he is still a favorite poet and intellectual guide to me.
8 hours ago · Welcome to HCC Academy! In this video, we dive deep into "A Psalm of Life" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a timeless poem that encourages us to live life wit...
2 days ago · The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow My rating: 5 of 5 stars Project Gutenberg edition This epic poem borrows from American Indian folklore and legend to build a fictional life story for the protagonist, Hiawatha. (There was an actual Hiawatha, but his life story apparently in no way resembles that of Longfellow's Hiawatha,…
6 days ago · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a powerful figure in nineteenth-century American culture. Born in Portland, Maine in 1807, he rose to national literary prominence by the 1850s and world-famous person by the time he died in 1882. He was an explorer, linguist, and romantic who identified with Europe's great literature and philosophical traditions. Simultaneously, he was rooted in American life ...
2 days ago · Rachel Dyer: A North American Story is a Gothic historical novel by American writer John Neal. Published in 1828 in Maine, it is the first bound novel about the Salem witch trials. Though it garnered little critical notice in its day, it influenced works by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, and Walt Whitman.
5 days ago · All common things, each day's events, That with the hour begin and end, Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend. The low desire, the base design, That makes another's virtues less; The revel of the ruddy wine, And all occasions of excess; The longing for ignoble things;
5 days ago · Sing of the air, and the wild delight. Of wings that uplift and winds that uphold you, The joy of freedom, the rapture of flight. Through the drift of the floating mists that infold you. Of the landscape lying so far below, With its towns and rivers and desert places; And the splendor of light above, and the glow.
