Evangeline and Selected Tales and Poems
Distinguished poet Horace Gregory has selected thirty-seven of Longfellow's most enduring poems for this edition, the only paperback of Longfellow's poetry in print.
Distinguished poet Horace Gregory has selected thirty-seven of Longfellow's most enduring poems for this edition, the only paperback of Longfellow's poetry in print.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451529657 (0451529650)
Publish date: January 4th 2005
Publisher: Signet Classics
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
I liked Longfellow's poems a lot better when I was a youngster. The sing-songy rhyming cadences were probably comforting to me as a child-- much like a lullaby. As an adult, they mostly just got on my nerves after a bit. And the surfeit of strained similes is almost too much to bear! Longfellow h...