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Evangeline

By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Narrated by: Leonard Wilson
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"Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie" is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the expulsion of the Acadians. The idea for the poem came from Longfellow's friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne. Longfellow used dactylic hexameter, imitated from Greek and Latin classics, though the choice was criticized.

It was published in 1847 and became Longfellow's most famous work in his lifetime. It remains one of his most popular and enduring works. The poem had a powerful effect in defining both Acadian history and identity in the nineteenth and twentieth century. More recent scholarship has revealed the historical errors in the poem and the complexity of the expulsion and those involved, which the poem ignores.
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A Timeless Classic

This is one of the most beautiful pieces of literature that I've ever listened to. I highly recommend it to one and all!!

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Longfellow should be read and known by all

Evangeline is the most romantic of all novels save the Bible. You will enjoy, feel and then weep.
The most beautiful and sad romantic novel ever written.
Longfellow lives on.

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The greatest epic poem in the English language. Longfellow’s timeless classic endures so long as love itself endures.

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