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The Golden Legend

Autor Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 dec 2009
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet born in 1807. He is one of the five Fireside Poets. Longfellow is best known for his poems Paul Revere's Ride and Evangeline. The Golden Legend was first told in the 12th century. The hero of the legend was a wealthy man who was stricken with leprosy. He is told he can only be cured by the death of a maiden who is willing to die for him. A girl who belongs to the family of one of his tenants offers to die for her lord. In the final moments he cannot accept her sacrifice and they return home where the hero makes the maiden his wife.
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ISBN-13: 9781438533612
ISBN-10: 1438533616
Pagini: 170
Dimensiuni: 191 x 235 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Book Jungle

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882) was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha and Evangeline. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the five Fireside Poets. Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, which was then a part of Massachusetts. He studied at Bowdoin College. After spending time in Europe he became a professor at Bowdoin and later, at Harvard College. Longfellow retired from teaching in 1854, to focus on his writing, living the remainder of his life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in a former Revolutionary War headquarters of George Washington.