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THE SONG OF HIAWATHA
by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
USA: THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO., 1900 BEAUTIFUL BOOK. GREEN TEXTURED COVER WITH DARK GREEN DESIGN AND GOLD DESIGN FRONT WITH GOLD PRINT SPINE. NO PUBLISHER DATE, COPYRIGHT 1898 AND MUST HAVE BEEN PRINTED SHORTLY AFTER THAT. PICTURE OF LONGFELLOW AS FRONTISPIECE. GLADSTONE EDITION INDICATED ON SPINE. SLIGHT WEAR TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE. FORMER OWNERS NAME WAS INSIDE FRONT IN PENCIL STATING XMAS 1906 AND WAS ERASED, STILL VISIBLE. FRONTISPIECE AND NEXT PAGE HAVE A SLIGHT CREASE, STILL IN GOOD SHAPE. CLEAN THROUGHOUT REST OF BOOK. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-82, American poet, b. Portland, Maine, grad. Bowdoin College, 1825. He wrote some of the most popular poems in American literature, in which he created a new body of romantic American legends. The Song of Hiawatha. A narrative poem depicting numerous Indian legends through the adventures of the fictionalized Hiawatha. It is Longfellow's most popular work and would sell more than fifty thousand copies by 1860. The meter of the poem was adapted from the Finnish epic Kalevala. Longfellow used the writings of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the Reverend John Heckewelder, and George Catlin as source material. ANTIQUE BOOKS DEN, WHERE HISTORY LIVES.
Synopsis
From the book:The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841. Schoolcraft married Jane, O-bah-bahm-wawa-ge-zhe-go-qua (The Woman of the Sound Which the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky), Johnston. Jane was a daughter of John Johnston, an early Irish fur trader, and O-shau-gus-coday-way-qua (The Woman of the Green Prairie), who was a daughter of Waub-o-jeeg (The White Fisher), who was Chief of the Ojibway tribe at La Pointe, Wisconsin. Jane and her mother are credited with having researched, authenticated, and compiled much of the material Schoolcraft included in his Algic Researches (1839) and a revision published in 1856 as The Myth of Hiawatha. It was this latter revision that Longfellow used as the basis for The Song of Hiawatha.
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- Bookseller
- Antique Books Den
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001123
- Title
- THE SONG OF HIAWATHA
- Author
- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
- Place of Publication
- USA
- Date Published
- 1900
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- HIAWATHA
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Famous Authors; POETRY;
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