Evangeline is one of the best long poems ever written by any author. It's popularity at through all class distinctions. It was read and loved and pondered over in humble cottages (Wagonknecht P.85). Evangeline was the first long poem in America literature to live beyond its own time, and it would be impossible to exaggerate its vogue, either at home or abroad (Wagonknecht P.85).

The historical basis of the story was supplied in 1755 by the expulsion of the French settlers from the vicinity of the boy of Minas in Acadie as an incident of the conflict between France and England for possession of the North American continent (Wagonknecht P.86).

In the poem Evangeline they are unable to find Gabriel. Evangelines party arrives at a village and finds Gabriel's father Basil, who tells Evangeline that Gabriel ha

Evangeline is nothing if not persistent. It apparently never occurred to the Victorian Longfellow that anyone would question the virtue of a maiden who would voyage for years unchaperoned with the rough men of the frontier and even spend a summer and autumn as the only women in a mission full of men (Williams P.154). It is what imparts to Evagneline its particular Longfellow character of delicate and rather teminine pathos, and deprives it of the true heroic strain. But pathos of this sort is a genuine poetic effect, and it is felt and expressed so purely, so appropriately, here as to escape the charge of sentimentality (Arvin P.101-102).

Gabriel Lajeunesse, in his passiuity and elusiveness, is unconsciously fleeing from Evangeline rather than seeking her out. Certainly he is no dominating and aggressive Odysseus, anymore than Evangeline is a merely stead fast and long-waiting Penelope; and the poem, in itself and in the popular imagination, is hers, not Gabriels (Arvin P.100-101).

Longfellow was not done with the Indian's they reappear in the Courtship of Miles Standish, only now they are not legendary prophets and singers, boosters and tricksters, but historical Wampunoag Indians, such as the settlers of Plymouth had encountered in all their solid actuality on the shores and in the woods of Massachusetts. The young woman he is in love with is an appreciably stronger character, as Elsie and Evangeline had been. It is true Alder compares Priscilla sentimentally to a Mayflowers, ' Modestand simple and sweet". The Puritan color of the poem is kept up not only by the austuyre landscape and seascape, but by the constant and always natural recurrence. Longfellow's resolution at a triangular romantic situation in the early days of little pilgrim colony of Plymouth is one of his most perfectly realized poems. (Arvin P.161-170).

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