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Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is a long poem. It was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It was published in 1847. The poem is about a girl named Evangeline. She searches for her lost love Gabriel. Longfellow got the idea for the poem from his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne. He modelled the poem on the Greek and Roman classics. Evangeline is one of Longfellow's most popular works.
Story
Evangeline is a girl of Acadie, a place in Canada. She is engaged to Gabriel. They are separated when the British deport the Acadians from Acadie in the Great Upheaval. She searches for him across America. This takes many years. Sometimes she is close to him without knowing he is near. Finally she settles in Philadelphia. She grows old. She works as a Sister of Mercy among the poor. She tends the dying during an epidemic. She finds Gabriel among the sick. He dies in her arms.
Gallery
Longfellow about 1850
Statue in St Martinville, Louisiana
Evangeline statue in Grand-Pré
Evangeline Media
Joseph Rusling Meeker (American, 1827–1889). The Acadians in the Achafalaya, "Evangeline", 1871. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum
Samuel Richards's painting "Evangeline Discovering Her Affianced in the Hospital"
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Other websites
- Evangeline at Project Gutenberg
- 1850 edition of Evangeline at Google Book Search
- Longfellow-Evangeline State Park Archived 2011-05-01 at the Wayback Machine in Louisiana
- Grand-Pré National Historic Site of Canada
- Audio excerpt read by Layne Longfellow; music by Michael Hoppé Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine
