Evangeline and Selected Tales and Poems

Includes<p>&quot;The Song of Hiawatha&quot;</p><p>&quot;Paul Revere's Ride&quot;</p><p>&quot;The Courtship of Miles Standish&quot;</p><p>&quot;The Wreck of the Hesperus&quot;</p><p><br>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the first American poet to successfully express the subjects and sentiments of the New World in classic old-world form and style. While his narrative poems have long been a part of our national heritage, and his sonnets, with their superb melodies and harmonies, are among the finest American poems in the Romantic tradition.</p><p></p><p>The distinguished modern poet Horace Gregory has selected more than three dozen of Longfellow's most enduring poems for this edition, which offers a perceptive insight into the many facets of Longfellow's genius.</p><p><b> </b></p><p><b>With a Preface by Edward M. Cifelli Ph.D., an Introduction by Horace Gregory, and a New Afterword</b></p>