The song of Hiawatha / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iroquois Indians--Kings and rulers--Poetry.

Iroquois Indians.

Hiawatha, active 15th century--Poetry.

Hiawatha.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (256 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Auckland, New Zealand] : Floating Press, 1855.

Summary:

Longfellow wrote his epic poem The Song of Hiawatha in 1855. He based it on the Ojibway legends, which had been compiled by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and his Ojibway wife Jane Schoolcraft. It tells the legend of Hiawatha and Minnehaha, his lover.

Contents:

Title; Contents; Introductory Note; The Song of Hiawatha Introduction; I The Peace-Pipe; II The Four Winds; III Hiawatha's Childhood; IV Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis; V Hiawatha's Fasting; VI Hiawatha's Friends; VII Hiawatha's Sailing; VIII Hiawatha's Fishing; IX Hiawatha and the PearlFeather; X Hiawatha's Wooing; XI Hiawatha's Wedding-Feast; XII The Son of the Evening Star; XIII Blessing the Cornfields; XIV Picture-Writing; XV Hiawatha's Lamentation; XVI Pau-Puk-Keewis; XVII The Hunting of Pau-PukKeewis; XVIII The Death of Kwasind; XIX The Ghosts; XX The Famine; XXI The White Man's Foot

XXII Hiawatha's DepartureVocabulary

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-77556-956-X

OCLC:

601901678