Hiawatha

Name: Hiawatha
Brand: Naxos
Availability: InStock
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
ISBN: 9789629546649

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Narrator: William Hootkins

Unabridged: 3 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Naxos

Published: 05/01/2005

Categories: Fiction, Poetry, American Poetry

Synopsis

Longfellow’s great narrative poem has been unjustly neglected in recent years though it gives a sympathetic portrait especially of Hiawatha, reared by Nokomis, daughter of the Moon, and his bride Minehaha. It is famously underpinned by its hypnotic rhythm, which makes it ideal listening.

About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807â€“1882) was the most popular and admired American poet of the nineteenth century. Known for his narrative historical and mythic poems, his most famous works include Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Tales of Wayside Inn. Versatile as well as prolific, Longfellow also won fame as a writer of
short ballads and lyrics, and experimented in the essay, the short
story, the novel, and the verse drama.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chris

I had never read this classic epic poem written in 1855 and I enjoyed reading this with a small group. over a month. Hiawatha was a stereotypical hero in the epic tradition and the poem follows his journey. There were lovely descriptions especially of animals and the environment. I love waterfalls a......more

Goodreads review by Jon

I liked this 'song' until the last 'refrain'. The way Hiawatha left his people (and who he tells them to 'follow') did not make sense to me. Seemed to me a hidden nod to manifest destiny; I am not a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow scholar so I will not make this a definitive statement.......more

Goodreads review by Werner

First published in 1855, this is one of Longfellow's longer poems; but the 245 pages of actual text in the edition I read (which was the 1898 printing by Thomas Y. Crowell and Co.) have wide margins and a good deal of white space, so the real length is much less than the page count might suggest. Re......more