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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... Portland, Maine. In visiting other historic houses, while working on a cultural guide to Maine, I was struck by the frequency with which busts of Dante appeared in these otherwise solidly AngloAmerican interiors. This image began ...
... Portland, Maine. In visiting other historic houses, while working on a cultural guide to Maine, I was struck by the frequency with which busts of Dante appeared in these otherwise solidly AngloAmerican interiors. This image began ...
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... young Henry James a week earlier in New York. The wit who sought to provoke said goodbye to the poet who tried very hard to please. Meanwhile, the snow had turned into howling rain. A THE CITY BY THE SEA Portland, in the District.
... young Henry James a week earlier in New York. The wit who sought to provoke said goodbye to the poet who tried very hard to please. Meanwhile, the snow had turned into howling rain. A THE CITY BY THE SEA Portland, in the District.
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A Rediscovered Life Charles C. Calhoun. A. THE. CITY. BY. THE. SEA. Portland,. in. the. District. of. Maine. NOTHER HOUSE, a more distant place. The original settlement of Portland had been strung across a threemilelong peninsula.
A Rediscovered Life Charles C. Calhoun. A. THE. CITY. BY. THE. SEA. Portland,. in. the. District. of. Maine. NOTHER HOUSE, a more distant place. The original settlement of Portland had been strung across a threemilelong peninsula.
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... Portland, Wadsworth Hall—still inhabited by his descendants—seems defended by its hilly fastness, very much the property of someone who wants to protect himself from a surprise raid from the sea. This rather martial air is even more ...
... Portland, Wadsworth Hall—still inhabited by his descendants—seems defended by its hilly fastness, very much the property of someone who wants to protect himself from a surprise raid from the sea. This rather martial air is even more ...
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... Portland neighbor, Commodore Edward Preble. After years of humiliation at sea by the British and the French in the Napoleonic Wars, the United States government sought to establish its navy's prestige by curbing the Barbary pirates of ...
... Portland neighbor, Commodore Edward Preble. After years of humiliation at sea by the British and the French in the Napoleonic Wars, the United States government sought to establish its navy's prestige by curbing the Barbary pirates of ...
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