The Song of Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9783849623579
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry

This is the completely illustrated and annotated edition including an extensive primer on the author's life and works and many splendid drawings by Harrsion Fisher. 'This Indian Edda, if I may so call it,' says the author, 'is founded on a tradition, prevalent among the North American Indians, of a personage of miraculous birth, who was sent among them to clear their rivers, forests, and fishing-grounds, and to teach them the arts of peace. He was known among different tribes by the several names of Michabou, Chiabo, Manabozho, Tarcuyawagon, and Hiawatha. ' We are further informed, that 'the scene of the poem is among the Ojibways on the southern shore of Lake Superior, in the region between the Pictured Rocks and the Grand Sable.' Here then, at last, is a genuine American poem, by a native of America; a poem redolent of pine-forests and the smoke of wigwams. ' In reading American poetry, we never get beyond the shores of Kent,' said a surly critic some years ago. It is obvious enough, that if this complaint was justifiable then, it is utterly without foundation now. Longfellow's poem created an immense and instant sensation, not only in this country, but in England. It was read, it was quoted, it was praised, it was ridiculed, it was dramatized, it was parodied, it was attacked as a plagiarism. It remains to this day the most parodied poem in the English language.

The Song of Hiawatha

Henry W. Longfellow

Contents:

Introductory To Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – A Primer

The Song of Hiawatha

Introduction

I - The Peace-Pipe

II - The Four Winds

III - Hiawatha's Childhood

IV - Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis

V - Hiawatha's Fasting

VI - Hiawatha's Friends

VII - Hiawatha's Sailing

VIII - Hiawatha's Fishing

IX - Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather

X - Hiawatha's Wooing

XI - Hiawatha's Wedding-Feast

XII - The Son of the Evening Star

XIII - Blessing the Cornfields

XIV - Picture-Writing

XV - Hiawatha's Lamentation

XVI - Pau-Puk-Keewis

XVII - The Hunting of Pau-Puk-Keewis

XVIII - The Death of Kwasind

XIX - The Ghosts

XX - The Famine

XXI - The White Man's Foot

XXII - Hiawatha's Departure

Vocabulary

The Song of Hiawatha, H. W.Longfellow

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Introductory To Hiawatha

The Red Man in North America has alternately been the victim of the poet and the politician. The wrongs suffered through the emissaries of the State may be of a more vital character than those inflicted by the Muse, yet they cannot be more real; for it has been the custom of the poet to clothe the Red Man in a histrionic garb, and invest him with exaggerated action. In literature he has, therefore, on the whole, had more than his due. The " Noble " overshadows the '' Poor Indian.'' Still there have been exceptions to the general rule, and thus a great character has occasionally been allowed to stand far below the true level. This, perhaps, has been the case with Hiawatha, the Sage of the Iroquois.

In saying this, however, I have no desire to reflect upon the course adopted by the author of the beautiful poem of " Hiawatha." His representations are, in the main, founded on Indian traditions. He has draw...