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American Literature 美国文学史及选读 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1872) 亨利.华兹沃斯.朗费罗 His Life His Works His Life 1. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the most widely read American poet in the nineteenth century. The Song of Hiawatha sold 3o,ooo copies within six month and one million copies in his life. 2.So great was his fame in England that he was the first American to have his bust preserved in Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey after his death in 1882. 3.With James Russel Lowell, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was one of the approved “Fireside Poets”. 4. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in 1807 in Portland Maine, into a long established family that could trace his ancestry back to Mayflower. He attended Bowdoin College, where he was a classmate of Nathaniel Hawthorne. 5. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a deeply traditional writer who used his talents to explore American history, legends ,such as Hiawatha. His optimism characterized much of his poetry. Literary critics have often praised his creation of American legend and naturalization of the foreign themes. His Works Works A Psalm of Life (1838) The Song of Hiawatha(1855) 海华莎之歌 -- his celebrated “Indian Edda” Evangeline (1847) 伊凡吉林 -- his narrative poem on the Acadians The Courtship of Miles Standish(1858) -- great popularity 麦尔思.斯丹狄士的求婚 Tales of a Wayside Inn(1863) Repetition in Poetry Repetition is the most basic device of poetry the one that give poetry most of its musical quality, including the repetition of sounds and the rhythms, but the repetition of words and lines.Often individual words are repeated in a poem for emphasis; suggesting the importance of these words to the meaning of the poem. A whole line may be also repeated in a poem. A repeated line or goupe of lines is called Refrain.Like musical refrain the chorus of a song a poetic refrain occurs at regular intervals. What did the repetition and refrain contribute to the meaning of this poem? Questions on A Psalm of Life 1.What d