Evangeline

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Evangeline is a narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that tells the tragic story of an Acadian girl's lifelong search for her lost love amid the Great Upheaval.

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instanceOf narrative poem
poem
author Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
containsCharacter Basil the blacksmith
Benedict Bellefontaine
Father Felician
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
featuresLocation Midwestern United States
surface form: American Midwest

Landscape of Grand Pré
surface form: Grand-Pré

Louisiana
Pennsylvania
firstPublicationYear 1847
genre historical fiction
romantic literature
hasAdaptation Evangeline self-linksurface differs
surface form: Evangeline (1913 film)

Evangeline (1919 film)
Evangeline (1919 film)
surface form: Evangeline (1929 film)

Evangeline self-linksurface differs
surface form: Evangeline (musical)
historicalEventDepicted Expulsion of the Acadians
Great Upheaval
influenced Acadian cultural identity
tourism in Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia
inspiredBy Acadian history
story told to Longfellow by Nathaniel Hawthorne
language English
literaryForm epic poem
literaryMovement American Romanticism
literarySignificance major work of 19th-century American poetry
one of Longfellow's most famous works
mainCharacter Evangeline Bellefontaine
Gabriel Lajeunesse
meter dactylic hexameter
narrativePerspective third-person omniscient
originalMedium print
placeOfPublication Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston
primaryTheme exile
faith
loss
love
perseverance
protagonistNationality Acadians
surface form: Acadian
protagonistOrigin Acadia
publisher William D. Ticknor & Company
settingPeriod 18th century
structure two parts
subjectMatter Acadians
surface form: Acadian diaspora

search for lost love
title Evangeline self-linksurface differs
surface form: Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

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Evangeline title Evangeline self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Evangeline hasAdaptation Evangeline self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Evangeline (1913 film)
Evangeline hasAdaptation Evangeline self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Evangeline (musical)
Ticknor and Fields publishedWork Evangeline
Eva St. Clare givenName Evangeline
Emmylou Harris notableWork Evangeline
Old Corner Bookstore publisherOf Evangeline
Eva shortFormOf Evangeline
Acadians culturalSymbol Evangeline
Longfellow family notableWork Evangeline
subject surface form: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Gabriel Lajeunesse appearsIn Evangeline
Gabriel Lajeunesse literaryWork Evangeline
this entity surface form: Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Gabriel Lajeunesse diesInWork Evangeline
Great Upheaval describedIn Evangeline
this entity surface form: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Evangeline"
Father Felician appearsIn Evangeline
Father Felician appearsInPartOfWork Evangeline
this entity surface form: Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Father Felician protects Evangeline
Father Felician guides Evangeline
Evangeline (1919 film) basedOn Evangeline
this entity surface form: Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
Evangeline (1919 film) adaptationOf Evangeline
this entity surface form: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s narrative poem "Evangeline"
Evangeline Lilly givenName Evangeline
Roses in the Snow nextWork Evangeline