The Courtship Of Miles Standish By Henry

Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) Essay, Research Paper Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was brought up as a New England aristocrat steeped in European culture. His works, written in part as Americanized tributes to the works of Sir Walter Scott, were very popular during his lifetime, but an antagonistic attitude toward them later developed among critics with tastes of another age. Today they are enjoying a revival as early American epic myths. The plot of this simple, gracefully written poem is reminiscent of Cyrano de Bergerac, but with twists of its own. Reunited friendship and requited young love told in the delicate detail of an old-English style, make Longfellow’s poem a classic.