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1855 Song of Hiawatha 1ed Henry Longfellow Poetry FAMED Native American BEAUTY
1855 Song of Hiawatha 1ed Henry Longfellow Poetry FAMED Native American BEAUTY
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1855 Song of Hiawatha 1ed Henry Longfellow Poetry FAMED Native American BEAUTY



"When thou smilest, my beloved,

Then my troubled heart is brightened”

– H.W. Longfellow, Song of Hiawatha



An incredible first edition of The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This epic and popular 19th-century poem tells the love story of an Ojibwe warrior and his love for a Dakota woman. Longfellow describes Indian legends that have stood the test of time, particularly in comparison to the religious themes that are employed through verse.



It was Longfellow who helped the American public understand the image of the Native American. According to Pearce,

“It was Longfellow who fully realized for mid-19th-century Americans the possibility of the image of the noble savage. [Prior to Hiawatha] there was a general feeling that the Indian belonged nowhere in American life but in dim prehistory” (p. 191)



Item number: #30916

Price: $599



LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth



The Song of Hiawatha



Boston: Ticknor and Fields, MDCCCLV [1855]. First edition.



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

iv, 316

Notes on Edition:

Printed December 26, 1855; 3000 copies

P.27, line 9: curlew

P.32, line 11: to the melancholy

P.39, line 11: Wahonowin

P.96, line 7: Dived

P.268, line 11: Wahonowin

P.268, line 14: Wahonowin

P.278, line 4 up: Cooed the pigeon

References: Pearce, Savages of America; BAL 12112

Language: English

Binding: Leather; tight and secure

Size: ~7in X 5in (17.5cm x 12.5cm)



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1855 Song of Hiawatha 1ed Henry Longfellow Poetry FAMED Native American BEAUTY

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