Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works-- Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha --as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems. For more than seventy years, Penguin...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was perhaps the most admired American writer of the 19th century, and his works were extraordinary bestsellers at home and abroad. Longfellow's immense popularity helped raise the status of poetry in America, and some of his works -- Hiawatha,...