Longfellow - Professor and Poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow began writing the “idyl in hexameters” which would become Evangeline in November of 1845, shortly after the birth of his second child.
When was Evangeline published?
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's first epic poem, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie, published in 1847, is a story of loss and devotion set against the deportation of the Acadian people in 1755.
Where is Evangeline buried?
According to the legend, Evangeline was buried by the tall oak, and her mother tended her grave for as long as she was able. The essence of Acadia personified. The bust of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, under the Evangeline Oak in St. Martinville.
