Transnational Longfellow: A Project of American National Poetry

by Armin Paul Frank and Christel-Maria Maas

This study marks a decisive advance in Longfellow studies. Instead of making do with documenting the poet's literary contacts in a biographical context, as has been the custom in the past, the authors inquire into the uses he made of European works for the English-American literature in the making. Focusing on Longfellow's widely famous poem, Evangeline , and the internationally most ambitious poet's anthology, Tales of a Wayside Inn , they demonstrate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631535163
• ISBN13: 9783631535165
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 172 Pages