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Evangeline: A Classic Narrative Poem of Acadian Exile, Faithfulness, and Lost Love
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781617207006
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Mar 22 2012
Pages: 46
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.11 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Evangeline is a moving narrative poem of exile, faithfulness, loss, and enduring love. Set against the forced removal of the Acadians from Nova Scotia, the poem follows Evangeline Bellefontaine as she is separated from her beloved Gabriel and spends years searching for him across a changing North American landscape. Her journey becomes both a personal quest and a poetic memorial to a displaced people.
Written in Longfellow's graceful, elevated style, Evangeline blends romance, history, religious feeling, and national memory. The poem carries readers from the peaceful village of Grand-Pré through wandering, hardship, hope, and disappointment, turning Evangeline's constancy into its central emotional force. Her story is not only about romantic devotion but also about patience, mercy, spiritual endurance, and the sorrow of lives broken by political violence.
First published in 1847, Evangeline became one of Longfellow's most famous works and helped make the Acadian exile part of American literary memory. It remains important for readers of classic American poetry, historical narrative poems, Canadian and Acadian history, nineteenth-century literature, and works that join personal love with collective tragedy.
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