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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... language. In a more general cultural sense, anyone outside of southern Louisiana who bites into some panblackened Cajun catfish or listens to zydeco is paying tribute, at only a slight remove, to Longfellow's role in rescuing the ...
... language. In a more general cultural sense, anyone outside of southern Louisiana who bites into some panblackened Cajun catfish or listens to zydeco is paying tribute, at only a slight remove, to Longfellow's role in rescuing the ...
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... literature in this country. The institute is devoted to the study and republication of historically, aesthetically, and culturally significant works written in what is now the United States but published in languages.
... literature in this country. The institute is devoted to the study and republication of historically, aesthetically, and culturally significant works written in what is now the United States but published in languages.
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... languages other than English. It turns out that there is an astonishing variety of such work, in more than forty languages; a fiftyvolume series is contemplated over the next decade. Longfellow himself would have been astonished that ...
... languages other than English. It turns out that there is an astonishing variety of such work, in more than forty languages; a fiftyvolume series is contemplated over the next decade. Longfellow himself would have been astonished that ...
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... language. But Upham took five stanzas to do what the thirteenyearold Longfellow did in four, and the boy managed to speed up and tighten the poem while giving it a patriotic flourish at the end. Neither poem is memorable, but judge ...
... language. But Upham took five stanzas to do what the thirteenyearold Longfellow did in four, and the boy managed to speed up and tighten the poem while giving it a patriotic flourish at the end. Neither poem is memorable, but judge ...
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