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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... town, so distant that people called it “Jaffa,” although a century earlier this had been the “court end” of Portland, full of large dwellings, and almost a century before that, it had been the site of the first European settlement on ...
... town, so distant that people called it “Jaffa,” although a century earlier this had been the “court end” of Portland, full of large dwellings, and almost a century before that, it had been the site of the first European settlement on ...
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... town, a few steps from the marketplace, the First Parish Church, and the courthouse, where Stephen practiced as an attorney. Zilpah's father, General Peleg Wadsworth, was one of those men who had done well in the Revolution. He had set ...
... town, a few steps from the marketplace, the First Parish Church, and the courthouse, where Stephen practiced as an attorney. Zilpah's father, General Peleg Wadsworth, was one of those men who had done well in the Revolution. He had set ...
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... town. Stephen was not one of Zilpah's beaux, although as a promising young Harvardeducated lawyer, he was becoming well known to the family. She was pleased to note, in the fall of 1800, that he was increasingly attentive to her older ...
... town. Stephen was not one of Zilpah's beaux, although as a promising young Harvardeducated lawyer, he was becoming well known to the family. She was pleased to note, in the fall of 1800, that he was increasingly attentive to her older ...
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... town clerk, notary public, clerk of courts, register of probate, and finally justice of the peace of the quorum (a job in which he did well, despite lack of any formal legal training). Among his many other public services (in the eyes ...
... town clerk, notary public, clerk of courts, register of probate, and finally justice of the peace of the quorum (a job in which he did well, despite lack of any formal legal training). Among his many other public services (in the eyes ...
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... town of 3,800. Like many wellbroughtup young men of his generation, he could not depend on the degree of deference his father and grandfather had taken as their due, yet he proved less successful than some of his peers in adapting to ...
... town of 3,800. Like many wellbroughtup young men of his generation, he could not depend on the degree of deference his father and grandfather had taken as their due, yet he proved less successful than some of his peers in adapting to ...
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