Cross of Snow

Cross of Snow
Author: Nicholas A. Basbanes
Publisher: Knopf
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2020-06-02
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1101875143
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A major literary biography of America's best-loved nineteenth-century poet, the first in more than fifty years, and a much-needed reassessment for the twenty-first century of a writer whose stature and celebrity were unparalleled in his time, whose work helped to explain America's new world not only to Americans but to Europe and beyond. From the author of On Paper ("Buoyant"--The New Yorker; "Essential"--Publishers Weekly), Patience and Fortitude ("A wonderful hymn"--Simon Winchester), and A Gentle Madness ("A jewel"--David McCullough). In Cross of Snow, the result of more than twelve years of research, including access to never-before-examined letters, diaries, journals, notes, Nicholas Basbanes reveals the life, the times, the work--the soul--of the man who shaped the literature of a new nation with his countless poems, sonnets, stories, essays, translations, and whose renown was so wide-reaching that his deep friendships included Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Julia Ward Howe, and Oscar Wilde. Basbanes writes of the shaping of Longfellow's character, his huge body of work that included translations of numerous foreign works, among them, the first rendering into a complete edition by an American of Dante's Divine Comedy. We see Longfellow's two marriages, both happy and contented, each cut short by tragedy. His first to Mary Storer Potter that ended in the aftermath of a miscarriage, leaving Longfellow devastated. His second marriage to the brilliant Boston socialite--Fanny Appleton, after a three-year pursuit by Longfellow (his "fiery crucible," he called it), and his emergence as a literary force and a man of letters. A portrait of a bold artist, experimenter of poetic form and an innovative translator--the human being that he was, the times in which he lived, the people whose lives he touched, his monumental work and its place in his America and ours.

Favorite Poems

Favorite Poems
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 97
Release: 2012-10-08
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 048615355X
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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.

Selected Poems

Selected Poems
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 433
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0140390642
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Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works—Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha—as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Poems

Poems
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Total Pages: 491
Release: 1970
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780460003827
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Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Total Pages: 4136
Release: 2013-11-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1908909692
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The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete works of America's most popular poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (12MB Version 1) Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Longfellow's life and works * Concise introductions to the poetry and other works * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Famous epic poems such as THE SONG OF HIAWATHA and EVANGELINE are fully illustrated with contemporary images * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Longfellow's novels * Also includes Longfellow's detailed travelogue OUTRE-MER, appearing here for the first time in digital print * Features a bonus biography on the great poet - discover Longfellow's literary life * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * Updated with the complete translation of Dante’s 'Divine Comedy' CONTENTS: The Poetry Collections Voices of the Night Juvenile and Earlier Poems Ballads and Other Poems Poems on Slavery The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems Birds of Passage Songs and Sonnets The Spanish Student Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie The Seaside and the Fireside The Song of Hiawatha The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems Tales of a Wayside Inn Flower-De-Luce Dante’s Divine Comedy The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems Kéramos and Other Poems Ultima Thule In the Harbor Christus: A Mystery Judas Maccabæus Michel Angelo: A Fragment Fragments Translations The Poems List of Poems in Chronological Order List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Novels Hyperion, a Romance Kavanagh The Travel Writing Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea The Biography Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Thomas Wentworth Higginson