Evangeline and Selected Tales and Poems Author:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow From the back cover: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the first American poet successfully to employ the classic form and style of the Old World to express the subjects and sentiments of the New. His narrative poems--Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish--have long been part of our national heritage; but Longfellow has ... more »more than the familiar to offer the discerning modern reader. Only recently have critics rediscovered his gift for creating superb melodies and harmonies in his verse. The shorter lyrics, the sonnets, are among the finest American poems in the Romantic tradition. The distinguished modern poet Horace Gregory has selected thirty-seven of Longfellow's most enduring poems for this edition, which offers to the student and to the general reader a perceptive insight into the many facets of the poet's genius. "Longfellow's dignified, yet lighthearted phrasing is unique...his mastery in telling a story and reciting a fable is unequaled in American verse."--Horace Gregory« less