Evangeline
Sign in to savethumb|Monument to Acadians, [[St. Martinville, Louisiana]] Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in English and published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel during the expulsion of the Acadians (1755–1764).
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- Poem.name
- Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie
- Poem.author
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Poem.country
- United States
- Poem.language
- English
- Poem.genre
- Epic poem
- Poem.publication_date
- 1847
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thumb|Monument to Acadians, [[St. Martinville, Louisiana]] Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is an epic poem by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, written in English and published in 1847. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel during the expulsion of the Acadians (1755–1764).
The idea for the poem came from Longfellow's friend Nathaniel Hawthorne. Longfellow used dactylic hexameter, imitating Greek and Latin classics. Though the choice was criticized, it became Longfellow's most famous work in his lifetime and remains one of his most popular and enduring works.