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“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.”

My own thougts
Are my companions; my designs and labours
And aspirations are my only friends.-
The Masque of Pandorn

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW : BOOKS/VIDEO

Evangeline (1847) the heartbreaking story of Acadians Gabriel and Evangeline search for each other after the two are separated during the British expulsion of the French settlers from Nova Scotia in 1755. Evangeline is forced to the land of southern Louisiana, Gabriel to other parts of the New World....
"This is the forest primeval..."

Evangeline (VHS 1929)

The Song of Hiawatha (1855) is Longfellow's most popular and most recognized poem, the epic life and death of a magic American Indian, sent by the Great Spirit to guide the nations in the ways of peace. Hiawatha's marriage to Minnehaha commences a golden age, until mischievous spirits entice Hiawatha into further adventures. ...
“On the Mountains of the Prairie,
On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry,
Gitche Manito, the mighty,
He the Master of Life, descending,
On the red crags of the quarry
Stood erect, and called the nations,
Called the tribes of men together.”

The Song of Hiawatha (VHS 1997)

The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1861) The famous narrative poem recreating Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.
“Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere....”

Biography: Paul Revere- The Midnight Ride (VHS 1996)

The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Library Binding)

Dante's Combined Works: The Divine Comedy, tr. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Children's Own Longfellow -This handsome volume contains eight of the most popular of Longfellow's poems, including “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” “The Village Blacksmith,” “Paul Revere's Ride,” and excerpts from “The Song of Hiawatha.”

Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life by Charles C. Calhoun - Calhoun's Longfellow emerges as one of America's first powerful cultural makers: a poet and teacher who helped define Victorian culture; a major conduit for European culture coming into America; a catalyst for the Colonial Revival movement in architecture and interior design; and a critic of both Puritanism and the American obsession with material success. Longfellow is also a portrait of a man in advance of his time in championing multiculturalism: He popularized Native American folklore; revived the Evangeline story (the foundational myth of modern Acadian and Cajun identity in the U.S. and Canada); wrote powerful poems against slavery; and introduced Americans to the languages and literatures of other lands.

Calhoun's portrait of post-Revolutionary Portland, Maine, where Longfellow was born, and of his time at Bowdoin and Harvard Colleges, show a deep and imaginative grasp of New England cultural history. Longfellow's tragic romantic life—his first wife dies tragically early, after a miscarriage, and his second wife, Fannie Appleton, dies after accidentally setting herself on fire—is illuminated, and his intense friendship with abolitionist and U.S. senator Charles Sumner is given as a striking example of mid-nineteenth-century romantic friendship between men. Finally, Calhoun paints in vivid detail Longfellow's family life at Craigie House, including stories of the poet's friends—Hawthorne, Emerson, Dickens, Fanny Kemble, Julia Ward Howe, and Oscar Wilde among them.

Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children : Selections from Shakespeare, Twain, Dickens, O.Henry, London, Longfellow, Irving, Aesop, Homer, Cervantes, Hawthorne, and More -A perennially popular collection of short stories, poems, legends, and myths from great works of literature that are especially appropriate for parents to read aloud to their children aged five to twelve.

Footprints of Henry W. Longfellow: A travel guide to America's favorite poet by Ethel F. Harberts

Everyday Life in the 1800s: A Guide for Wriers, Students, and Historians -The Everyday Life series helps writers, students and researchers save valuable time and bring richness and historical accuracy to their work. Each guide describes the food, clothes, customs, slang, occupations, religions, politics and other historical details that are so often difficult to find.

LINKS FOR LEARNING : HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

• Who Were the Longfellows? - Maine Historical Society
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Online Books -
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, National Historic Site - home of poet, scholar and educator, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from 1837-1882.
• Longfellow's Wayside Inn, Sudbury, Mass
• Westminster Abbey, Poets' Corner - Longfellow was the first American commemorated in the Poets' Corner.