Evangeline describes the betrothal of a fictional Acadian girl named Evangeline Bellefontaine to her beloved, Gabriel Lajeunesse, and their separation as the British deport the Acadians from Acadie in the Great Upheaval.
There the richest was poor, and the poorest lived in abundance. Gentle Evangeline lived, his child, and the pride of the village. White as the snow were his locks, and his cheeks as brown as the oak- leaves. Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!
Evangeline is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "bearer of good news". Evangeline is the 174 ranked female name by popularity.
Evangeline is a poem with an epic scope. Its protagonist spends decades searching for her lost lover, traveling a route created by Longfellow that encompasses a large part of what was the United States and its territories.
Evangeline was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first epic poem. Hiawatha (1855), "Miles Standish" (1858), and Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1873) followed, cementing Longfellow's reputation as the preeminent mythmaker of his country's young history.
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"Evangeline" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is an epic poem published in 1847. The work tells the story of Evangeline Bellefontaine, an Acadian girl separated from her beloved Gabriel during the British expulsion of the Acadians in 1755.