- Evangeline - Wikipedia
Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in English and published in 1847 The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel during the expulsion of the Acadians (1755–1764)
- Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie - Academy of American Poets
Gentle Evangeline lived, his child, and the pride of the village White as the snow were his locks, and his cheeks as brown as the oak-leaves Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses! Sweet was her breath as the breath of kine that feed in the meadows
- Longfellows Works - Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Evangeline was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first epic poem Hiawatha (1855), "Miles Standish" (1858), and Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1873) followed, cementing Longfellow's reputation as the preeminent mythmaker of his country's young history
- Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie - HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie Prologue This is the forest primeval The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms
- Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Project Gutenberg
This famous work tells the story of the heart-wrenching separation of a young Acadian woman named Evangeline from her beloved, Gabriel, during the expulsion of the Acadians by the British It explores themes of love, longing, and the devastation caused by war
- Evangeline | poem by Longfellow | Britannica
…was more at home in Evangeline (1847), a narrative poem that reached almost every literate home in the United States It is a sentimental tale of two lovers separated when British soldiers expel the Acadians (French colonists) from what is now Nova Scotia
- Evangeline - Longfellow House Washingtons Headquarters National . . .
Evangeline is a poem with an epic scope Its protagonist spends decades searching for her lost lover, traveling a route created by Longfellow that encompasses a large part of what was the United States and its territories
- Longfellow’s Evangeline: The Birth and Acceptance of a Legend
In 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote Evangeline as a tragic but fictional account of two lovers, Evangeline and Gabriel, who were separated on their wedding day during the expulsion of the Acadians from Acadie (present-day Nova Scotia, Canada)
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