The Song of Hiawatha

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Credits: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (author)

Summary

Longfellow's long poem tells the life of Hiawatha, the Ojibwe hero, from his boyhood among the animals through his fasting, his fishing and the wedding feast to the coming of the white man, and does so in unrhymed trochees borrowed from the Kalevala. It was one of the best-selling poems of the 19th century.

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Chapters (23)

  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. I The Peace-Pipe
  3. 3. II The Four Winds
  4. 4. III Hiawatha’s Childhood
  5. 5. IV Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis
  6. 6. V Hiawatha’s Fasting
  7. 7. VI Hiawatha’s Friends
  8. 8. VII Hiawatha’s Sailing
  9. 9. VIII Hiawatha’s Fishing
  10. 10. IX Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather
  11. 11. X Hiawatha’s Wooing
  12. 12. XI Hiawatha’s Wedding-Feast
  13. 13. XII The Son of the Evening Star
  14. 14. XIII Blessing the Cornfields
  15. 15. XIV Picture-Writing
  16. 16. XV Hiawatha’s Lamentation
  17. 17. XVI Pau-Puk-Keewis
  18. 18. XVII The Hunting of Pau-Puk-Keewis
  19. 19. XVIII The Death of Kwasind
  20. 20. XIX The Ghosts
  21. 21. XX The Famine
  22. 22. XXI The White Man’s Foot
  23. 23. XXII Hiawatha’s Departure

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