The Courtship of Miles Standish
Written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Narrated by B. J. Harrison
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was an American poet. Born in Portland, Maine, Longfellow excelled in reading and writing from a young age, becoming fluent in Latin as an adolescent and publishing his first poem at the age of thirteen. In 1822, Longfellow enrolled at Bowdoin College, where he formed a lifelong friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne and published poems and stories in local magazines and newspapers. Graduating in 1825, Longfellow was offered a position at Bowdoin as a professor of modern languages before embarking on a journey throughout Europe. He returned home in 1829 to begin teaching and working as the college’s librarian. During this time, he began working as a translator of French, Italian, and Spanish textbooks, eventually publishing a translation of Jorge Manrique, a major Castilian poet of the fifteenth century. In 1836, after a period abroad and the death of his wife Mary, Longfellow accepted a professorship at Harvard, where he taught modern languages while writing the poems that would become Voices of the Night (1839), his debut collection. That same year, Longfellow published Hyperion: A Romance, a novel based partly on his travels and the loss of his wife. In 1843, following a prolonged courtship, Longfellow married Fanny Appleton, with whom he would have six children. That decade proved fortuitous for Longfellow’s life and career, which blossomed with the publication of Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847), an epic poem that earned him a reputation as one of America’s leading writers and allowed him to develop the style that would flourish in The Song of Hiawatha (1855). But tragedy would find him once more. In 1861, an accident led to the death of Fanny and plunged Longfellow into a terrible depression. Although unable to write original poetry for several years after her passing, he began work on the first American translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy and increased his public support of abolitionism. Both steeped in tradition and immensely popular, Longfellow’s poetry continues to be read and revered around the world.
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Reviews for The Courtship of Miles Standish
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I found this poem a bit disappointing. I am glad I read it as its plot is part of the local history of Massachusetts, dealing as it does with the Pilgrims first few years in Plymouth, and I have seen parts of the poem quoted many times before (especially Priscilla's remark to John Alden). However, I found the poetry itself lacking a bit compared to other of Longfellow's works.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An old book with t the beautiful illustrations by NC Wyeth. Preface by Longfellow who says that he was a direct descendant of Priscilla and John Alden (The subject of the book). Is it verse...is it prose? It is certainly not rhyming verse but obviously designed to be read as verse. An interesting story with the conflict between old friends , Miles Standish the old soldier and John Aldren ...the bookish winner in the contest for Priscilla's hand. I was not especially taken with the poem itself. Ok but didn't especially grab me. But I really bought it for the illustrations and some of these are great...some rather ordinary.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I enjoyed this as an audio book on LibriVox. I appreciated all of the beautiful imagery as well as the many allusions to the Bible.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5A bit too thick to listen to- better to read the book.