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Evangeline describes the betrothal of a fictional Acadian girl named Evangeline Bellefontaine to her beloved, Gabriel Lajeunesse, and their separation as the British deport the Acadians from Acadie in the Great Upheaval.
A classic American poem that tells the story of Evangeline, a young Acadian woman who searches for her lost love after the expulsion of the French settlers by the British. The poem depicts the beauty and tragedy of the Acadian land and culture, and the enduring power of love and hope.
…was more at home in Evangeline (1847), a narrative poem that reached almost every literate home in the United States. It is a sentimental tale of two lovers separated when British soldiers expel the Acadians (French colonists) from what is now Nova Scotia. The lovers, Evangeline and Gabriel, are reunited… Read More; illustrated edition by ...
Evangeline was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first epic poem. Hiawatha (1855), "Miles Standish" (1858), and Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1873) followed, cementing Longfellow's reputation as the preeminent mythmaker of his country's young history.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. One of the best known works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Published in 1847, this epic poem tells the story of an Arcadian woman from what is now Nova Scotia,...
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem by 19th-century American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The first epic by an American author, it was published in 1847 and immediately became extremely popular.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's classic poem Evangeline follows the odyssey of a people―the Acadians, forceably deported from Nova Scotia in 1755―and immortalizes Acadia as the Land of Evangeline. This is the haunting love story of Evangeline and Gabriel, devoted from childhood, who are separated during the expulsion of the Acadians from Grand ...
