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 that the poet-professor's program and practice of an integrative, transnational American poetry that includes translations adapts the model that the Schlegel Brothers recommended for German literature - a cultural late-comer as was that of the U.S.A. In the process, they identify a number of correlative works so far overlooked.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:3631535163
ISBN13:9783631535165
Release Date:February 2005
Publisher:Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
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