Later there was Evangeline, a tragedy of the humble which Henry Wadsworth Longfellow made into an American epic whose measures will always sing to us of the faith in affliction of an exiled American peasantry and of their belief that love is the ultimate conqueror.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). One of Americas best loved poets, Longfellow drew on his own experience of domestic tragedy to produce some of the most moving and honest poems ever written.