Evangeline and Selected Tales and Poems
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451510938 (0451510933)
Publish date: September 1st 1964
Publisher: Signet Classics
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...