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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hotz, Jeffrey

Titel

Longfellow's imaginative engagement : the works of his late career

Ort / Verlag

Vancouver ; Madison : The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

[2022]

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 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 -- Kéramos 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 Posthumously published poems, unpublished verse, and the archival records
• "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 final two decades as a vibrant artistic period"--