Evangeline
poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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