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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hotz, Jeffrey (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: 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 Posthumously published poems, unpublished verse, and the archival records.