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The Song of Hiawatha

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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1855
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  1. Introduction

    7:31

  2. The Peace-pipe

    7:01

  3. The Four Winds

    12:52

  4. Hiawatha's Childhood

    10:32

  5. Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis

    12:32

  6. Hiawatha's Fasting

    12:46

  7. Hiawatha's Friends

    7:59

  8. Hiawatha's Sailing

    6:26

  9. Hiawatha's Fishing

    9:32

  10. Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather

    12:51

  11. Hiawatha's Wooing

    12:16

  12. Hiawatha's Wedding Feast

    10:06

  13. The Son of the Evening Star

    16:33

  14. Blessing the Cornfields

    10:36

  15. Picture-Writing

    8:03

  16. Hiawatha's Lamentation

    9:30

  17. Pau_Puk_Keewis

    10:47

  18. The Hunting of Pau-Puk-Keewis

    14:58

  19. The Death of Kwasind

    5:21

  20. The Ghosts

    9:18

  21. The Famine

    8:05

  22. The White Man's Foot

    9:49

  23. Hiawatha's Departure

    10:31

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Longfellow borrowed the drumbeat meter of the Finnish Kalevala and used it to build an American myth. His hero grows up by the shore of Gitche Gumee, learns the speech of birds and animals, avenges his mother, wrestles the corn spirit Mondamin so his people can eat, invents picture writing, and marries Minnehaha of the Dakota. Famine and grief follow, and the poem closes with Hiawatha paddling west into the sunset as missionaries arrive. It was wildly popular, parodied nearly as often as it was quoted, and its handling of Ojibwe material owes more to Romantic invention than to ethnography, a fact that has kept it in argument ever since. The rhythm is impossible to shake once heard. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available here.

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Longfellow was the most widely read poet in the English-speaking world in his own century and close to unread in the next, a fall worth explaining rather than simply repeating. He taught modern languages at Harvard, made the first American translation of Dante's Commedia, and wrote for a public that memorised verse as a matter of course.

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First published
1855
Reading time
About 2 hours
Pages
189
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Peter Yearsley