The Song of Hiawatha

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1855

The legendary life of an Ojibwe hero told in chanting trochaic verse. Longfellow's once-ubiquitous American Indian epic.

Books that mention The Song of Hiawatha (5)

• Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain: “that the tales in Hiawatha were of this sort, and they came from Schoolcraft's book”
• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Wiggin: “evenings when Rebecca would read aloud Hiawatha or Barbara Frietchie, The Bugle Song, or The Brook.”
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell: “[48] Longfellow, The Song of Hiawatha, VIII.”
• The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides: “She had read Longfellow's "Hiawatha" that way”
• The American Diary of a Japanese Girl by Yoné Noguchi: “I must read Mr. Longfellow again as I used a year ago reclining in the Spring breeze,—“A Psalm of Life,” “The Village Blacksmith,” and half a dozen snatches from “Evangeline” or “The Song of Hiawatha” at the least.”