Longfellow: A Rediscovered LifeBeacon Press, 28 Jun 2016 - 332 halaman Charles C. Calhoun's Longfellow gives life, at last, to the most popular American poet who ever lived, a nineteenth-century cultural institution of extraordinary influence and the"one poet average, nonbookish Americans still know by heart" (Dana Gioia). Calhoun's Longfellow emerges as one of America's first powerful cultural makers: a poet and teacher who helped define Victorian culture; a major conduit for European culture coming into America; a catalyst for the Colonial Revival movement in architecture and interior design; and a critic of both Puritanism and the American obsession with material success. Longfellow is also a portrait of a man in advance of his time in championing multiculturalism: He popularized Native American folklore; revived the Evangeline story (the foundational myth of modern Acadian and Cajun identity in the U.S. and Canada); wrote powerful poems against slavery; and introduced Americans to the languages and literatures of other lands. Calhoun's portrait of post-Revolutionary Portland, Maine, where Longfellow was born, and of his time at Bowdoin and Harvard Colleges, show a deep and imaginative grasp of New England cultural history. Longfellow's tragic romantic life-his first wife dies tragically early, after a miscarriage, and his second wife, Fannie Appleton, dies after accidentally setting herself on fire-is illuminated, and his intense friendship with abolitionist and U.S. senator Charles Sumner is given as a striking example of mid-nineteenth-century romantic friendship between men. Finally, Calhoun paints in vivid detail Longfellow's family life at Craigie House, including stories of the poet's friends-Hawthorne, Emerson, Dickens, Fanny Kemble, Julia Ward Howe, and Oscar Wilde among them. |
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... Massachusetts, where Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lived from 1837 until his death in 1882. The event marked not only the thirtieth anniversary of public ownership of the property, but the completion of four years of badly needed ...
... Massachusetts, where Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lived from 1837 until his death in 1882. The event marked not only the thirtieth anniversary of public ownership of the property, but the completion of four years of badly needed ...
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... Massachusetts, had come of age in the years leading up to the American Revolution. A Harvard graduate of the class of 1769, with military tastes, he saw action at the Siege of Boston and played a central role in the illfated Penobscot ...
... Massachusetts, had come of age in the years leading up to the American Revolution. A Harvard graduate of the class of 1769, with military tastes, he saw action at the Siege of Boston and played a central role in the illfated Penobscot ...
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... Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1678, and who had married into the powerful Sewall clan. From early on, the family name had provoked mirth: Anne Sewall, after the death of William, married Henry Short; “and, as Savage says in his ...
... Massachusetts Bay Colony, in 1678, and who had married into the powerful Sewall clan. From early on, the family name had provoked mirth: Anne Sewall, after the death of William, married Henry Short; “and, as Savage says in his ...
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... Massachusetts Bay Colony. But its theology had mellowed, under the influence of the rationalism of eighteenthcentury transatlantic thought, and his Portland congregation had, in cautious steps, abandoned its Trinitarian doctrines and ...
... Massachusetts Bay Colony. But its theology had mellowed, under the influence of the rationalism of eighteenthcentury transatlantic thought, and his Portland congregation had, in cautious steps, abandoned its Trinitarian doctrines and ...
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... Massachusetts. At the same time, Stephen could point to his childhood on the Longfellow farm at Gorham as evidence of his solid roots in the soil. As William Willis writes in his history of the law in Maine, “Sometimes, in his addresses ...
... Massachusetts. At the same time, Stephen could point to his childhood on the Longfellow farm at Gorham as evidence of his solid roots in the soil. As William Willis writes in his history of the law in Maine, “Sometimes, in his addresses ...
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