The first of the three canticles in "La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy), this fourteenth-century allegorical poem begins Dante''s imaginary journey from Hell to Purgatory to Paradise with his sojourn among the damned. His encounters with historical and mythological creatures--each symbolic of a [...]
Henry W. Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine in 1807. The son of a lawyer, he toured Europe before settling in Harvard, where he taught. In 1847, the success of his poems enabled him to give up teaching and embark on Song of Hiawatha. This is a collection of his poetry.[...]
Dante Alighieri was born in Florence, Italy in the middle of the 13th century and what is principally known of him comes from his own writings. One of the world's great literary masterpieces, "e;The Divine Comedy"e; is at its heart an allegorical tale regarding man's search for divinity. The[...]
In the summer of 1854, Longfellow wrote in his diary "I have at length hit upon a plan for a poem on the American Indians, which seems to me the right one and the only. It is to weave together their beautiful traditions as whole." What emerged the next year was "The Song of Hiawatha," a composite of[...]
Paying tribute to an American literary icon, this collection of Longfellow's the best work from his poems, novels, and essays reveals the secret behind his enormous popularity in the 19th century.[...]