What is Evangeline?
{{italictitle}} [[File:Myles Birket Foster2.jpg|thumb|300px|Evandeline's home by Myles Birket Foster, 1880]] {{wikisource|Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie}} {{commons category|Evangeline}} '''''Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie''''' is a long [[poem]]. It was written by [[Henry Wadsworth Longfellow]]. It was [[publish]]ed 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. == Story == Evangeline is a girl of Acadie, a place in [[Canada]]. She is engaged to Gabriel. They are separated when the British deport the Acadians from Acadie in the Great Upheaval. She searches for him across America. This takes many years. Sometimes she is close to him without knowing he is near. Finally she settles in [[Philadelphia]]. She grows old. She works as a Sister of Mercy among the poor. She tends the dying during an [[epidemic]]. She finds Gabriel among the sick. He dies in her arms. == Gallery == <gallery> File:Henry W Longfellow with signature-crop.jpg|Longfellow about 1850 File:Evangeline statue St Martinville Louisiana closeup trim.jpg|Statue in St Martinville, Louisiana File:Grand Pré.JPG|Evangeline statue in Grand-Pré </gallery> == Other websites == *{{gutenberg|no=2039|name=Evangeline}} *[https://books.google.com/books?id=KXQCAAAAYAAJ&dq=evangeline+longfellow&pg=PP1 1850 edition of ''Evangeline''] at [[Google Book Search]] *[http://www.crt.state.la.us/Parks/ilongfell.aspx Longfellow-Evangeline State Park] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110501150706/http://www.crt.state.la.us/parks/ilongfell.aspx |date=2011-05-01 }} in Louisiana *[http://www.grand-pre.com Grand-Pré National Historic Site of Canada] *[http://www.laynelongfellow.com/poetry/media/evangeline.mp3 Audio excerpt read by Layne Longfellow; music by Michael Hoppé] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304000131/htt