The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (English) Paperback Book

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Presents the text of the poem, "The Song of Hiawatha", and provides an index of the Indian names and their meanings.

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In the summer of 1854, Longfellow wrote in his diary "I have at length hit upon a plan for a poem on the American Indians, which seems to me the right one and the only. It is to weave together their beautiful traditions as whole." What emerged the next year was "The Song of Hiawatha," a composite of legends, folklore, myth, and characters that presents, in short, lilting lines (who can forget "By the shore of Gitche-Gumme / By the shining Big-Sea Water"?) the life-story of a real Indian, who provides the focus for the narrative thread of this epic drama of high adventure, tragedy and conflict.The aim was not to tell a particular or specific story but to unite the strands of various Indian legends, to present a sympathetic portrait of many Native American tribes, and especially to disclose their profound relationship with the natural world. This when both government policies and an expanding, land-hungry population were just beginning their inexorable campaign of displacement and annihilation.The poem received a decidedly mixed reception.Our own "Boston Traveller" revealed its biases: "We cannot help but express our regret that our own pet national poet should not have selected as a theme of his muse something better and higher than the silly legends of the savage aborigines." Despite this, the poem entered into our canon of great narratives, and was revived again in 1891 when Remington, surely the most renowned artist of the West, provided with new pen and ink drawings.This handsome new, and freshly reset, edition (the only unabridged version in print) presents the full text, includes all 400 of the original Remington illustrations, and provides an index of the Indian names and their meanings.

Author Biography

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in 1807 in Portland, Maine, and he became a professor of modern languages at Harvard. His most famous narrative poems include The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Reveres Ride, "The Village Blacksmith," "The Wreck of the Hesperus." From his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne, Longfellow got a brief outline of a story from which he composed one of his most favorite poems, 'Evangeline'. The original story had Evangeline wandering about New England in search of her bridegroom. One of the first poets to take the landscape and stories of North America as his subjects, Longfellow b

Details ISBN1567922589 Author Frederic Remington Short Title SONG OF HIAWATHA Pages 282 Series Nonpareil Book Language English ISBN-10 1567922589 ISBN-13 9781567922585 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2008 Country of Publication United States Birth 1861 Death 1909 Illustrator Frederic Remington Imprint David R. Godine Publisher Inc Place of Publication Lincoln DOI 10.1604/9781567922585 NZ Release Date 2008-03-06 Publisher David R. Godine Publisher Inc DEWEY 810 Audience General UK Release Date 2008-04-03 Publication Date 2008-04-03 US Release Date 2008-04-03 AU Release Date 2008-02-14 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this

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