Longfellow's imaginative engagement the works of his late career Hotz, Jeffrey creator author. text bibliography biography Biographies. Criticism, interpretation, etc. bcc 2022 monographic eng print xiii, 585 pages ; 24 cm "Longfellow's Imaginative Engagement is a literary biography of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow from 1861 until 1882. Using archival materials from Harvard's Houghton Library and Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site, the book presents Longfellow's final two decades as a vibrant artistic period"-- Introduction: "Out of the shadows of night/the world rolls into light" -- Pursuing successful publication because of personal and national tragedy -- Narratives of recuperation and loss in Tales of a wayside inn, the second day, and part third -- The divine comedy translation : art as macrocosm and microcosm -- Flower-de-luce as symbol and search : ideals of completion and unity -- The New England tragedies and the restless yearning for feminist ideals -- Anxiety about personal faith in public art : solving the problem of The divine tragedy -- Christianity as an incomplete project : belief and unbelief in The divine tragedy and Christus : a mystery -- Three books of song and the Poets of poetry of Europe : continuities and collisions of faith -- New directions : an aesthetic amalgam for transcendence in the 1870s -- Aftermath and the arts of personal disclosure and desire -- The imperatives of love and the beautiful in The masque of Pandora and other poems -- Preparing for charted and uncharted journeys -- KeÌ?ramos and other poems : the aesthetic world and the inner self -- Ultima Thule as the final spiritual and artistic journey -- After March 24, 1882 : Longfellow's posthumous career -- Visions of the multiverse : In the harbor -- Ultima Thule, part II and Michael Angelo : a fragment -- Epilogue. Posthumously published poems, unpublished verse, and the archival records. Jeffrey Hotz. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882 Criticism and interpretation Poets, American 19th century Biography American poetry 19th century History and criticism Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth 1807-1882 American poetry Poets, American 1800-1899 fast PS2288 .H68 2022 811/.3 Longfellow's imaginative engagement Hotz, Jeffrey. Vancouver ; Madison : The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2022] (DLC) 2021046365 9781611477757 1611477751 9781611477764 2021046364 LBSOR/DLC 211204 20220413145806.9 in00004566263 eng