Ballads and Other Poems
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Published: 1842
Total Pages: 144
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Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Published: 1842
Total Pages: 144
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Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-05-26
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 3385129877
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Author: Thomas Haynes Bayly
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Published: 1844
Total Pages: 318
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William Wordsworth
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Published: 1800
Total Pages: 272
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Edward Everett Hale (Jr.)
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Published: 1843
Total Pages: 174
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher: Library of America
Published: 2000-08-28
Total Pages: 877
ISBN-13: 188301185X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo American writer of the nineteenth century was more universally enjoyed and admired than Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. His works were extraordinary bestsellers for their era, achieving fame both here and abroad. Now, for the first time in over twenty-five years, The Library of America offers a full-scale literary portrait of America’s greatest popular poet. Here are the poems that created an American mythology: Evangeline in the forest primeval, Hiawatha by the shores of Gitche Gumee, the midnight ride of Paul Revere, the wreck of the Hesperus, the village blacksmith under the spreading chestnut tree, the strange courtship of Miles Standish, the maiden Priscilla and the hesitant John Alden; verses like “A Psalm of Life” and “The Children’s Hour,” whose phrases and characters have become part of the culture. Here as well, along with the public antislavery poems, are the sparer, darker lyrics—"The Fire of Drift-Wood," “Mezzo Cammin,” “Snow-Flakes,” and many others—that show a more austere aspect of Longfellow’s poetic gift. Erudite and fluent in many languages, Longfellow was endlessly fascinated with the byways of history and the curiosities of legend. As a verse storyteller he had no peer, whether in the great book-length narratives such as Evangeline and The Song of Hiawatha (both included in full) or the stories collected in Tales of a Wayside Inn (reprinted here in a generous selection). His many poems on literary themes, such as his moving homages to Dante and Chaucer, his verse translations from Lope de Vega, Heinrich Heine, and Michelangelo, and his ambitious verse dramas, notably The New England Tragedies (also complete), are remarkable in their range and ambition. As a special feature, this volume restores to print Longfellow’s novel Kavanagh, a study of small-town life and literary ambition that was praised by Emerson as an important contribution to the development of American fiction. A selection of essays rounds out of the volume and provides testimony of Longfellow’s concern with creating an American national literature. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Author: Mary Botham Howitt
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Published: 1847
Total Pages: 432
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: W. H. Auden
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 1995-08-08
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0679761705
DOWNLOAD EBOOKW. H. Auden once defined light verse as the kind that is written by poets who are democratically in tune with their audience and whose language is straightforward and close to general speech. Given that definition, the 123 poems in this collection all qualify; they are as accessible as popular songs yet have the wisdom and profundity of the greatest poetry. As I Walked Out One Evening contains some of Auden's most memorable verse: "Now Through the Night's Caressing Grip," "Lullaby: Lay your Sleeping Head, My Love," "Under Which Lyre," and "Funeral Blues." Alongside them are less familiar poems, including seventeen that have never before appeared in book form. Here, among toasts, ballads, limericks, and even a foxtrot, are "Song: The Chimney Sweepers," a jaunty evocation of love, and the hilarious satire "Letter to Lord Byron." By turns lyrical, tender, sardonic, courtly, and risqué, As I Walked Out One Evening is Auden at his most irresistible and affecting.
Author: William Wordsworth
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781840225358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLyrical Ballads constituted a quiet poetic revolution, both in its attitude to its subject matter and its anti-conventional language. This volume contains all of "Lyrical Ballads" with Wordsworth's preface of 1800/1802, and a wide range of both poets' other work across their poetic careers.