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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... family gatherings, country dances. There is nothing else quite like it in Maine. But Wadsworth was shrewd enough to know that money came more quickly in a flourishing port than in rural Hiram; at the same time, he established himself as ...
... family gatherings, country dances. There is nothing else quite like it in Maine. But Wadsworth was shrewd enough to know that money came more quickly in a flourishing port than in rural Hiram; at the same time, he established himself as ...
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... family meanwhile had returned to the safety of Plymouth. The story, with all its subplots and digressions, must have been told again and again, as the family epic, in the “great room” of Wadsworth Hall, to the general's own ten children ...
... family meanwhile had returned to the safety of Plymouth. The story, with all its subplots and digressions, must have been told again and again, as the family epic, in the “great room” of Wadsworth Hall, to the general's own ten children ...
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... family. And Dwight does not fail to say a word for the ladies—Henry's grandmother and her companion, Miss Fenno—and for heroic republican motherhood. He describes the bloodsoaked house the raiders left behind: To add to the sufferings ...
... family. And Dwight does not fail to say a word for the ladies—Henry's grandmother and her companion, Miss Fenno—and for heroic republican motherhood. He describes the bloodsoaked house the raiders left behind: To add to the sufferings ...
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... family memorialist sixtytwo years later: “'Preferring death to slavery,' he had voluntarily perished, with his ... family's sense of patriotic mission. She knew that she would probably never be called upon to duplicate the heroism ...
... family memorialist sixtytwo years later: “'Preferring death to slavery,' he had voluntarily perished, with his ... family's sense of patriotic mission. She knew that she would probably never be called upon to duplicate the heroism ...
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... family, I have been singing while I wrote and could not write any thing that required reflection. Ten children! what a circle! I should like to know what are mamas thoughts as she looks around on us. Their father was away at Congress ...
... family, I have been singing while I wrote and could not write any thing that required reflection. Ten children! what a circle! I should like to know what are mamas thoughts as she looks around on us. Their father was away at Congress ...
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