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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... night” or seen “footprints on the sands of time” or unwittingly echo the dozen or so other Longfellow quotes that have become part of the language. In a more general cultural sense, anyone outside of southern Louisiana who bites into ...
... night” or seen “footprints on the sands of time” or unwittingly echo the dozen or so other Longfellow quotes that have become part of the language. In a more general cultural sense, anyone outside of southern Louisiana who bites into ...
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... night and wonder if it was a deliberate slight.” Wilde was certain it was “the rebuke of Majesty to the vanity of the poet.” But was it? The late Prince Albert would not have thought so. A poet who could bring down from Parnassus ...
... night and wonder if it was a deliberate slight.” Wilde was certain it was “the rebuke of Majesty to the vanity of the poet.” But was it? The late Prince Albert would not have thought so. A poet who could bring down from Parnassus ...
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... night, when the wind had died down, you could hear the swift, incoming tide slapping at the harbor pilings, down one slope of the hill, and the gentler rhythm of the waves stroking the shoals in the broad cove out back. Longfellow had ...
... night, when the wind had died down, you could hear the swift, incoming tide slapping at the harbor pilings, down one slope of the hill, and the gentler rhythm of the waves stroking the shoals in the broad cove out back. Longfellow had ...
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... night in 1781, a party of twentyfive British regulars, alerted by a Tory sympathizer, surrounded the house at Thomaston in which the Wadsworth family was sleeping. Easily chasing away the sentry, the raiding party shot its way into the ...
... night in 1781, a party of twentyfive British regulars, alerted by a Tory sympathizer, surrounded the house at Thomaston in which the Wadsworth family was sleeping. Easily chasing away the sentry, the raiding party shot its way into the ...
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... night after night, through a section of plank in the ceiling of their chamber. To disguise their efforts, they filled the holes with chewed up bread, which happened to be the same color as the wood. One night, a heavy thunderstorm gave ...
... night after night, through a section of plank in the ceiling of their chamber. To disguise their efforts, they filled the holes with chewed up bread, which happened to be the same color as the wood. One night, a heavy thunderstorm gave ...
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