Evangeline - Couverture souple

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1595403078 ISBN 13 : 9781595403070

Editeur : 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2004

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born of Puritan stock at Portland, Maine, on February 27, 1807. His father was Stephen Longfellow, a graduate of Harvard, a lawyer, and a cultured and religious man, who looked carefully after the education of his eight children. His mother, Zilpha Wadsworth, a descendant of a John Alden and a Priscilla Mullens (the original of Priscilla in Miles Standish) who came over in the Mayflower, was a beautiful, gentle, and pious woman. Henry was their second son. As a child he took less interest in games and sports than in books, of which his favorites were Cowper spoems. Lalla Rookh, Ossian, The Arabian Nights, Don Quixote, and Irving s Sketch Book. At the age of fifteen he entered Bowdoin College, at Brunswick, Maine. A mong his associates and classmates was Nathaniel Hawthorne, with whom he formed a strong and lasting friendship. At college he distinguished himself both as a student and as a writer of graceful verse. On graduating, in 1825, he was at once honored by the board of trustees with appointment to the newly estab Ushed chair of modern languages. In order to fit himself more fully for this position, he went to Europe, where he spent three and a half years in travel and study. In 1829 he returned to A merica, strongly equipped to begin his duties as a professor. Two years later he married Miss Mary Potter, the daughter of an intimate friend of his father.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1595403078
• ISBN 13: 9781595403070
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 68
• Éditeur: 1st World Library, 1stworld Library
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible