Selected Poems -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

<p> </p><p>Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works--<i>Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, </i> and <i>Hiawatha</i>--as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems. <p/>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br><b>Publisher:</b> Penguin Group<br><b>Published:</b> 01/01/1988<br><b>Pages:</b> 389<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.75lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.78h x 5.14w x 0.99d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780140390643<br><b>Age Range:</b> 18-UP<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br><b>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</b> (1807-1882) was the most popular and admired American poet of the nineteenth century. Born in Portland, Maine, and educated at Bowdoin College, Longfellow's ambition was always to become a writer; but until mid-life his first profession was the teaching rather than the production of literature, at his alma mater (1829-35) and then at Harvard (1836-54). His teaching career was punctuated