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Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is a classic verse written by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in 1847. The poem is about an Acadian lass whose name is Evangeline and she longs to find Gabriel, her beloved who is nowhere to be found. The setting was at the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians. The concept for the verse was from Henry’s comrade Nathaniel Hawthorne. Henry applied dactylic hexameter, emulating Greek and Latin pieces, although the selection was critiqued. It is indeed Henry’s best known poem in his life and is still among his very famous and lasting poems. The verse is highly influential in explaining both Acadian annals and uniqueness in the 19th and 20th centuries. More modern erudition has shown the chronological blunders in the verse and the intricacy of the Expulsion and those included, which the verse disregards. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a poet and professor whose writings are Paul Revere’s Ride, The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was also the first American to convert into English language Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, and was among the five Fireside Poets from New England. Henry was born in Portland, Maine, which was before a part of Massachusetts. He enrolled at Bowdoin College. After staying in Europe, he became an educator at Bowdoin and, then, at Harvard College. His first major verse selections were Voices of the Night and Ballads and Other Poems. Henry later stopped working as a teacher, to devote his time on writing. He resided in Cambridge, Massachusetts for most of his life, in a previous Revolutionary War head office of George Washington. His first marriage was with Mary Potter who died after having a miscarriage. His second marriage was with Frances Appleton who died after incurring severe injuries when her clothes got burned.
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