Synopsis
Epic verse, now in Latin, retells Hiawatha’s legends for a new audience .
This abridged, Latin rendering invites readers to encounter ancient tales through a classical lens, guided by Longfellow’s celebrated source material.
This edition presents a flowing, poem-based narrative that blends dramatic episodes with a prefatory voice and a student-friendly glossary. It emphasizes accessible language while honoring the original legends, offering both literary beauty and historical flavor in a compact, readable form.- Readable Latin rendering of a well-known American epic, adapted for modern readers.
- Accompanying introduction and notes that help frame the poems’ Latin style and cultural references.
- A glossary detailing key terms, place names, and natural history words used in the text.
- Suitably paced sections that balance narrative momentum with classical diction.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in 1807 in Portland, Maine, and he became a professor of modern languages at Harvard. His most famous narrative poems include The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Reveres Ride, "The Village Blacksmith," "The Wreck of the Hesperus." From his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne, Longfellow got a brief outline of a story from which he composed one of his most favorite poems, 'Evangeline'. The original story had Evangeline wandering about New England in search of her bridegroom. One of the first poets to take the landscape and stories of North America as his subjects, Longfellow became immensely popular all over the world, and he was the first American commemorated in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey. He was given honorary degrees at the great universities of Oxford and Cambridge, invited to Windsor by Queen Victoria, and called by request upon the Prince of Wales. He was also chosen a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and of the Spanish Academy. He died on March 24, 1882.
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