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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Hiawatha:

Longfellow was not a poetic innovator, but he did hit upon subjects that
had not been used before, and included material in his poems, especially the
long ones, which had been considered the exclusive province of history, or at
least fiction. Hiawatha is a prime example of this. The poem is based on a
tradition prevalent among North American Indians that a personage of
miraculous birth is to be sent among them to clear their rivers, forests, and
fishing grounds, and to teach them the arts of peace. Hiawatha is written in
an unrhymed ...

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