{"product_id":"longfellow-a-rediscovered-life-9780807070260","title":"Longfellow: A Rediscovered Life","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLongfellow: A Rediscovered Life\u003c\/strong\u003e by Calhoun, Charles C.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780807070260.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharles C. Calhouns Longfellow gives life, at last, to the most popular American poet who ever lived, a nineteenth-century cultural institution of extraordinary influence and the\"one poet average, nonbookish Americans still know by heart\" (Dana Gioia).\n\nCalhouns Longfellow emerges as one of Americas first powerful cultural makers: a poet and teacher who helped define Victorian culture; a major conduit for European culture coming into America; a catalyst for the Colonial Revival movement in architecture and interior design; and a critic of both Puritanism and the American obsession with material success. Longfellow is also a portrait of a man in advance of his time in championing multiculturalism: He popularized Native American folklore; revived the Evangeline story (the foundational myth of modern Acadian and Cajun identity in the U.S. and Canada); wrote powerful poems against slavery; and introduced Americans to the languages and literatures of other lands.\n\nCalhouns portrait of post-Revolutionary Portland, Maine, where Longfellow was born, and of his time at Bowdoin and Harvard Colleges, show a deep and imaginative grasp of New England cultural history. Longfellows tragic romantic life-his first wife dies tragically early, after a miscarriage, and his second wife, Fannie Appleton, dies after accidentally setting herself on fire-is illuminated, and his intense friendship with abolitionist and U.S. senator Charles Sumner is given as a striking example of mid-nineteenth-century romantic friendship between men. Finally, Calhoun paints in vivid detail Longfellows family life at Craigie House, including stories of the poets friends-Hawthorne, Emerson, Dickens, Fanny Kemble, Julia Ward Howe, and Oscar Wilde among them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44983961681973,"sku":"ByrdShop_0807070262","price":22.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780807070260_5c9ec3ba-f87c-41e8-8361-1132eef409d5.jpg?v=1778851829","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/longfellow-a-rediscovered-life-9780807070260","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}