Longfellow's imaginative engagement : the works of his late career /
"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 fin...
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Vancouver ; Madison : Lanham, Maryland :
The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,
[2022]
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Posthumously published poems, unpublished verse, and the archival records.