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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... Young Longfellow in 1938—were rewritings of the Reverend Samuel Longfellow's threevolume memorial (1886), which had served to embalm his brother as the “good gray poet” of the Craigie House fireside. The absence of a reliable biography ...
... Young Longfellow in 1938—were rewritings of the Reverend Samuel Longfellow's threevolume memorial (1886), which had served to embalm his brother as the “good gray poet” of the Craigie House fireside. The absence of a reliable biography ...
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... young man was Oscar Wilde, come to burnish his reputation in the New World. His cab pulled into the circular drive to the west of the house, and passing through the Blue Entry he soon faced the pleasure of a hot breakfast on a cold day ...
... young man was Oscar Wilde, come to burnish his reputation in the New World. His cab pulled into the circular drive to the west of the house, and passing through the Blue Entry he soon faced the pleasure of a hot breakfast on a cold day ...
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... young Henry James a week earlier in New York. The wit who sought to provoke said goodbye to the poet who tried very hard to please. Meanwhile, the snow had turned into howling rain. A THE CITY BY THE SEA Portland, in the District.
... young Henry James a week earlier in New York. The wit who sought to provoke said goodbye to the poet who tried very hard to please. Meanwhile, the snow had turned into howling rain. A THE CITY BY THE SEA Portland, in the District.
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... 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 the Neck. The house belonged to Captain Samuel Stephenson, who had asked the young.
... 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 the Neck. The house belonged to Captain Samuel Stephenson, who had asked the young.
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... young couple to keep his wife Abigail company during the winter while he was at sea. Like many coastal New Englanders who depended on maritime trade, Stephenson would, by the end of that year, find his livelihood threatened by ...
... young couple to keep his wife Abigail company during the winter while he was at sea. Like many coastal New Englanders who depended on maritime trade, Stephenson would, by the end of that year, find his livelihood threatened by ...
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