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The Song of Hiawatha

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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 20050101
Author:White, Melissa

The Song of Hiawatha, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Illustrated by Frederic Remington. David R. Godine, March 2004. $23.95

This lovely little edition contributes to a fledgling recovery of nineteenth-century American poetry. Perhaps it is strange to call Godine's fine-press work "recovery"; the academic recovery effort in poetry of the nineteenth century has largely focused on women writers, and has generally divorced itself from the loving aestheticism which evinces itself in every page of Godine's book. After all, why "recover" Longfellow and the other "fireside" poets, who were long ago ...

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