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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... career. Senator Clinton confirmed that Edward Kennedy had indeed recited “Paul Revere” from memory before Senator Robert Byrd, chair of the Appropriations Committee—who had recited it back to him, during the hearings on the funding bill ...
... career. Senator Clinton confirmed that Edward Kennedy had indeed recited “Paul Revere” from memory before Senator Robert Byrd, chair of the Appropriations Committee—who had recited it back to him, during the hearings on the funding bill ...
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... career, written for the general public but drawing on a generation of new scholarship in history, literature, and the study of national identity. The problem, of course, is that Longfellow was so very nice a man. He did not sleep with ...
... career, written for the general public but drawing on a generation of new scholarship in history, literature, and the study of national identity. The problem, of course, is that Longfellow was so very nice a man. He did not sleep with ...
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... career an alternative vision to the America of the relentless market economy. My interest in writing this book goes back to the time, ten years ago, when I was researching a history of Bowdoin College. In trying to determine to what ...
... career an alternative vision to the America of the relentless market economy. My interest in writing this book goes back to the time, ten years ago, when I was researching a history of Bowdoin College. In trying to determine to what ...
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... career, titled “Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America”—a bit of a stretch, perhaps, but a useful corrective. In this light, it is significant that one of the major thrusts of activity today at the Longfellow National Historic Site ...
... career, titled “Longfellow: The Man Who Invented America”—a bit of a stretch, perhaps, but a useful corrective. In this light, it is significant that one of the major thrusts of activity today at the Longfellow National Historic Site ...
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... career. Let's try to abandon it for the moment. His contemporaries saw him not just as a worldfamous poet and an admirable man but as a vitalizing force at the very center of their culture. We cannot put him back there. But we can seek ...
... career. Let's try to abandon it for the moment. His contemporaries saw him not just as a worldfamous poet and an admirable man but as a vitalizing force at the very center of their culture. We cannot put him back there. But we can seek ...
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