IDENTITY
Evangeline
Literature
Work Summary
A narrative poem telling the story of Evangeline and Gabriel, two Acadian lovers separated during the expulsion of the Acadians. Evangeline spends years searching for Gabriel across North America, finding him only at the end of his life. The poem combines displacement, enduring love, faith and loss with an idealized historical landscape.
Evidence Summary
He says he had never known them to be as beautiful as he found them then.
Direct visual-to-literary connection: Boughton's paintings prompted the rereading.
CONTEXT
Author / Source
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Work
Evangeline
Years / Period
13 Oct 1873
Van Gogh Relation
Reread, Discussed / Commented On
EVIDENCE
Key Quotation
CONNECTIONS
Evidence Trail
13 Oct 1873 — Letter 14
Reread / Commented On · Reread / evaluated
Van Gogh says Boughton's paintings prompted him to read Miles Standish and Evangeline again.
Response: He says he had never known them to be as beautiful as he found them then.
Connection: Direct visual-to-literary connection: Boughton's paintings prompted the rereading.
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