Henry Wadsworth Longfellow epub Poems of Henry W. Longfellow: Including Evangeline, the Song of Hiawatha and the Courtship of Miles Standish; With Biographical Sketch and Explanatory Notes (Classic Reprint)

Only the circumstance that Longfellow lived after Irving instead of before him prevented his becoming, in at least one sense, the VsA merican man of letters. I rving, who was the first to win a transatlantic reputation, was essentially a man of letters; Hawthorne had mpch of the poet in his intellectual character, though he wrote only in prose ;L ongfellow was distinctly a poet, a fact that is plainly discernible in Hyperion and Outre-M er, a8 well as in Evangeline and Hiawatha. In him the reputation established by Irving and sustained by Hawthorne suffered no dimming. There is no one American author whose genius towers conspicuously above all others, but Longfellow, by the nobility of his thought and the perfection of his form, whether he wrote in verse or in prose, easily holds a place among the greatest. One of his characteristics is poetic maturity. A ny collection of his best poems would include something that was written in his teens and something that was written after he was seventy years old. There was certainly growth in his boyhood and youth, but there were no evidences of decay in his old age. His early work was mature but not precocious, and his later work is simple but not childish. Like most people, especially those of talent or genius, his work and his interest in it were not absolutely even, but were subject to a tidal ebb and flow. Thus we find him at the age of twenty-two writing from Germany, My poetic career is finished. He was mistaken. He was born a poet and such he remained to his last year. A gain when he was about fortyfive years of age, he feared he would write no more poetry. But he was soon at work with new subjects, treating them with undiminished grace.. To his native talent he added hab of .(Typographical errors above are due to OCR software and don't occur in the book.)About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Cl