Longfellow - Poems and Other Writings

This volume offers a full-scale literary portrait of our country's greatest popular poet. Here are the poems that created American mythology: Evangeline in the forest primeval, Hiawatha by the shores of Gitche Gumee, the midnight ride of Paul Revere, and the wreck of the Hesperus. Poems on literary themes, translations, and verse dramas are remarkable in range and ambition. A selection of essays show Longfellow's ongoing concern with the founding of an American literature. Hardcover; 856 pages.