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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... modern Acadian culture in Canada, Maine, and Louisiana. He supplied his fellow citizens with such emblematic literary characters as Hiawatha, Paul Revere, Priscilla Alden, and Miles Standish. He expressed in his work, and represented in ...
... modern Acadian culture in Canada, Maine, and Louisiana. He supplied his fellow citizens with such emblematic literary characters as Hiawatha, Paul Revere, Priscilla Alden, and Miles Standish. He expressed in his work, and represented in ...
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... modern audience. His poetic oeuvre itself will most likely survive, at least in fragments—for example, the short lyrics such as “Aftermath” and “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” that find their way into anthologies. But his real legacy ...
... modern audience. His poetic oeuvre itself will most likely survive, at least in fragments—for example, the short lyrics such as “Aftermath” and “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” that find their way into anthologies. But his real legacy ...
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... modern languages and two ancient ones.) The linkage of his name and this ambitious modern project suggests a new way of looking at the poet—as a pioneer multiculturalist championing the “civil rights of language” of this country's ...
... modern languages and two ancient ones.) The linkage of his name and this ambitious modern project suggests a new way of looking at the poet—as a pioneer multiculturalist championing the “civil rights of language” of this country's ...
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... (modern Castine), at the mouth of the Penobscot River in Maine, and thereby reduce the threat to Massachusetts from the east, had led instead to the destruction of the American fleet, largely as a result of its commanders' incompetence ...
... (modern Castine), at the mouth of the Penobscot River in Maine, and thereby reduce the threat to Massachusetts from the east, had led instead to the destruction of the American fleet, largely as a result of its commanders' incompetence ...
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... (modern Portland), at a time when its people still felt the danger of being so close to the French in Canada and their Indian allies. Men of learning were scarce on the Maine frontier, and Longfellow soon rose to serve as parish clerk ...
... (modern Portland), at a time when its people still felt the danger of being so close to the French in Canada and their Indian allies. Men of learning were scarce on the Maine frontier, and Longfellow soon rose to serve as parish clerk ...
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