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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... century. The senior senator from Massachusetts recalled how his mother encouraged all the Kennedy children to learn “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” by heart. The junior senator from New York, Hilary Clinton, said that lines from “A ...
... century. The senior senator from Massachusetts recalled how his mother encouraged all the Kennedy children to learn “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” by heart. The junior senator from New York, Hilary Clinton, said that lines from “A ...
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... century. Nor were the cultural reverberations all that antiquarian. In 1996, for example, I attended the Maine Humanities Council's “premiere” of the newly restored print of the 1929 silent film Evangeline, starring Dolores Del Rio. The ...
... century. Nor were the cultural reverberations all that antiquarian. In 1996, for example, I attended the Maine Humanities Council's “premiere” of the newly restored print of the 1929 silent film Evangeline, starring Dolores Del Rio. The ...
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... century) is the scholarly study of the poet's role in inspiring the Colonial Revival movement in latenineteenth and earlytwentiethcentury America. An amazing variety of cultural artifacts—from the muchreproduced image of Priscilla at ...
... century) is the scholarly study of the poet's role in inspiring the Colonial Revival movement in latenineteenth and earlytwentiethcentury America. An amazing variety of cultural artifacts—from the muchreproduced image of Priscilla at ...
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... century. Art historians (encouraged, admittedly, by the art market) seem to have grasped this fact more readily than their colleagues in the English departments. There is a note of apology, even of defensiveness, that still attaches ...
... century. Art historians (encouraged, admittedly, by the art market) seem to have grasped this fact more readily than their colleagues in the English departments. There is a note of apology, even of defensiveness, that still attaches ...
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... century earlier. Wilde's immediate task was to publicize Gilbert and Sullivan's American tour of Patience—an operetta that satirized the Aesthetic Movement of which he was so decorative a part— but he also wanted to try out Oscar Wilde ...
... century earlier. Wilde's immediate task was to publicize Gilbert and Sullivan's American tour of Patience—an operetta that satirized the Aesthetic Movement of which he was so decorative a part— but he also wanted to try out Oscar Wilde ...
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