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The Song of Hiawatha

Name: The Song of Hiawatha
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Epic poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Also known as Song of Hiawatha

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Released: 1855
Language: English
Genre: epic poem

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The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which features Native American characters. The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha, a Dakota woman. Events in the story are set in the Pictured Rocks area of Michigan on the south shore of Lake Superior. Longfellow's poem is based on oral traditions surrounding the Ojibwe folk hero Manabozho, but also contains Longfellow's own innovations.

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Title: The Song of Hiawatha
Has version, edition or translation: The Song of Hiawatha language: English · released: 1855 · edition number: 1
The Song of Hiawatha language: English · released: 1891
The Song of Hiawatha language: English · released: 2004
Der Sang von Hiawatha language: German
The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow language: English · released: 1898
Copyright status: public domain applies to jurisdiction: countries with 100 years pma or shorter
public domain applies to jurisdiction: United States
Derivative work: The Song of Hiawatha
Members / parts: The Death of Minnehaha
Hiawatha's Childhood
Main subject: Ojibwe
Hiawatha
Form of creative work: poem

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