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Hace 2 días · Esta historia compartida comienza con Juan Ponce de León, que no solo fue el primer español en pisar suelo norteamericano cuando el 3 de abril de 1513 arribó a la isla que bautizó como La Florida y que avistó el 27 de marzo pensando que no era más que otra gran isla, y no parte de un inmenso continente. A su hazaña le siguieron Hernando Soto en 1539 quien exploró el sur de los EE. UU ...
Hace 4 días · In 1883, he was awarded the Hallgarten prize for The Courtship of Miles Standish, a series of works based on the Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem. A decade later, ...
Hace 5 días · The May-December marriage rocked Portsmouth. A century later, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow turned the story into a best-selling ballad called "Lady Wentworth". It appeared in 1863 in his famous collection "Tales of Wayside Inn" with the equally romanticized ballad about Paul Revere’s famous ride.
Hace 2 días · Other major contributions include the poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and the short stories of Melville, Poe, Hawthorne, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Additionally, this era is the inauguration point of American literary criticism, lead by Poe, James Russell Lowell, and William Gilmore Simms.
Hace 3 días · The Lighthouse. The rocky ledge runs far into the sea, And on its outer point, some miles away, The Lighthouse lifts its massive masonry, A pillar of fire by night, of cloud by day. Even at this distance I can see the tides, Upheaving, break unheard along its base, A speechless wrath, that rises and subsides. In the white lip and ...
Hace 1 día · The Singers. God sent his Singers upon earth. With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again. The first, a youth, with soul of fire, Held in his hand a golden lyre; Through groves he wandered, and by streams, Playing the music of our dreams.
Hace 3 días · A wind came up out of the sea, And said, “O mists, make room for me.” It hailed the ships and cried, “Sail on, Ye mariners, the night is gone.” And hurried landward far away, Crying “Awake! it is the day.” It said unto the forest, “Shout! Hang all your leafy banners out!” It touched the wood-bird's folded wing, And said, “O bird, awake and sing.”
