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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Song of Hiawatha

Fiction | Novel/Book in Verse | Adult | Published in 1855

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Invocation” by Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (1827)

Indigenous writer Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, along with her husband Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, influenced Longfellow. Many of Jane Schoolcraft’s family stories are believed to have inspired Hiawatha.

Paul Revere’s Ride” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1860)

Another one of Longfellow’s famous epic poems, “Paul Revere’s Ride” examines the America’s revolutionary past by casting one its players as a hero of the era.

Kalevala translated by John Martin Crawford (1891)

This epic Finnish poem also inspired Longfellow’s Hiawatha, in particular its unusual form and meter. Longfellow studied this work in its original Finnish and drew on it to create his own American epic.

Further Literary Resources

The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Song Of Hiawatha” by Henry W. Longfellow (1855)

A helpful glossary to some of the indigenous terms and phrases used in The Song of Hiawatha

This article explores the sources Longfellow drew on for The Song of Hiawatha, in particular family stories and accounts from Ojibwe poet Jane Schoolcraft

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