Selections from Longfellow


Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk

These are twelve magnificent poems that convey the brilliant talent of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at its best. These are poems that speak of life, that speak of daily toil and that speak to the common man, the lover, the survivor, the grief stricken - and to those who aspire to be visionaries in a mundane life of perplexity and inexplicable profundity.

These are twelve poems that capture a cross-section of life and describe it in ways both practical and prophetic. These are poems that take us on a journey, a journey from the commonplace to the mystical, from the routine to the unexpected, from loss to rebirth, from tyranny to triumph, "In the perpetual round of strange / Mysterious change".

Longfellow's "mysterious change" is the essence of life, the elixir of existence - that which has bewildered and confused, which has engendered the eternal quest for meaning. These are poems that address this quest and supply new and enabling ideas to further mankind's ceaseless pursuit of knowledge; poems that suggest, as in the daily mission of "The Village Blacksmith", "Thus, at the flaming forge of life, / Our fortunes must be wrought".
- Summary by Bruce Kachuk (0 hr 35 min)

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The Village Blacksmith 2:53 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
The Old Clock on the Stairs 4:20 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
The Arrow and the Song 1:01 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
The Open Window 1:28 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
The Day is Done 2:43 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Rain in Summer 4:44 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
The Reaper and the Flowers 2:02 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Afternoon in February 1:09 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
The Rainy Day 1:23 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Excelsior 2:39 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
The Wreck of the Hesperus 5:15 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk
Paul Revere’s Ride 6:04 Gelesen von Bruce Kachuk