Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841. Schoolcraft married Jane, O-bah-bahm-wawa-ge-zhe-go-qua (The Woman of the Sound Which the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky), Johnston. Jane was a daughter of John Johnston, an early Irish fur trader, and O-shau-gus-coday-way-qua (The Woman of the Green Prairie), who was a daughter of Waub-o-jeeg (The White Fisher), who was Chief of the Ojibway tribe at La Pointe, Wisconsin. Jane and her mother are credited with having researched, authenticated, and compiled much of the material Schoolcraft included in his Algic Researches (1839) and a revision published in 1856 as The Myth of Hiawatha. It was this latter revision that Longfellow used as the basis for The Song of Hiawatha.

The Song of Hiawatha

Choice collection includes the long narrative poem, "The Courtship of Miles Standish," plus such famous works as "The Village Blacksmith," "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "Paul Revere's Ride," many more. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Favorite Poems

Evangeline  (English)

Dante Alighieri

Dante

This edition of Dante's epic poem, written between 1308 and 1321, features the classic translation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, along with over 100 engravings by Gustave Dore, long considered the greatest artist ever to have illustrated this timeless masterpiece.

The Divine Comedy

J. D. McClatchy

Selected poems, novels, and essays are included in a collection of the nineteenth-century American poet's works.

Poems and Other Writings

Selected Poems (Phoenix Poetry)

A 1922 printing, limited to 400 copies for the friends of William Edwin Rudge, of Longfellow's The Three Kings.

The Three Kings

The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [eBook - NC Digital Library]

An illustrated version of the narrative poem which describes Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside of an impending attack by the British.

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

Horace Gregory

Poems deal with the Acadian migration, an Indian hero, a shipwreck, village life, colonial America, ghosts, grief, and memories of childhood.

Evangeline and Selected Tales and Poems

Peter Bondanella

Gustave Dore

Julia Conaway Bondanella

Dante Alighieri ; translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; with an introduction and notes by Peter Bondanella and Julia Conaway Bondanella ; illustrations by Gustave Doré.

The Purgatorio

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was an American poet. He wrote the first American translation of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets. He established his literary career by submitting poetry and prose to various newspapers and magazines. Between January 1824 and his graduation in 1825, he had published nearly 40 minor poems. About 24 of them appeared in the short-lived Boston periodical The United States Literary Gazette. After graduating in 1825, he was offered a job as professor of modern languages at his alma mater. The story, possibly apocryphal, is that an influential trustee, Benjamin Orr, had been so impressed Longfellow's translation of Horace that he was hired under the condition that he travel to Europe to study French, Spanish and Italian. When he returned to the United States in 1836, Longfellow took up the professorship at Harvard University. He began publishing his poetry, including Voices of the Night in 1839 and Ballads and Other Poems, which included his famous poem The Village Blacksmith, in 1841. His other works include Paul Revere's Ride, A Psalm of Life, The Song of Hiawatha, Evangeline and Christmas Bells.

The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Part II (Dodo Press)

Nova Scotia is haunted by her former self - Acadia, first settled in 1605. The landscape immortalized by Longfellow through his tale of lovers separated by the Acadian expulsion of 1755, has come to be known as the Land of Evangeline.

A Tale of Acadie

Evangeline

Favorite Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The famous narrative poem recreating Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.

Paul Revere's Ride

Includes the memorable "The Skeleton in Armor," "The Arsenal at Springfield," "Mezzo Cammin," "The Rhyme of Sir Christopher" (from Tales of a Wayside Inn), "Aftermath" and "Divina Commedia." Cambridge Edition.

Evangeline and Other Poems

This is the extended edition including an extensive primer on the author's life and works as well as a detailed introductory note to the work itself. Hyperion is the name of a prose romance, that the author wrote in 1839. The basis of it was the experience of Mr. Longfellow in Europe in 1835 and 1836. He left New York in the spring of 1835, accompanied by his wife and two friends; spent the summer in England and Northern Europe, but went to Rotterdam in the fall. There his wife died at the end of November. He travelled thence alone to Heidelberg, where he passed the winter, and in the following summer was in the Tyrol and Switzerland, returning to America in October, 1836. The route from Rotterdam to Heidelberg is precisely that of Paul Flemming, the book's protagonist, while the studies of his hero in Heidelberg, his friendships and his excursions in the coming summer, correspond substantially with Mr. Longfellow's own course, as indicated in his diary and letters.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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