Unique Elements
- Historical Context: About the Book
- Historical Context: About the Author
THE BELOVED Literary Classic by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.
The Song of Hiawatha by AMERICAN author HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) is an epic poem in trochaic tetrameter first published in 1855 in the UNITED STATES.
A well-known classic narrating tales borrowed from Native American oral traditions and folklore.
Sneak Peak‘By the shore of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,
Hiawatha stood and waited.’
Synopsis‘The Song of Hiawatha’ tells the victional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha, a Dakota woman. Events in the story are set in the Pictured Rocks area of Michigan, on the south shore of Lake Superior.
Title Details
- 1855
- Epic poem
Over de auteur
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 – 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include ‘Paul Revere’s Ride’, The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England.