The Courtship of Miles Standish (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- First Published: 1858
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Type of Plot: Sentimental
- Time of Work: 1621
- Setting: Massachusetts
- Principal Characters: Miles Standish, John Alden, Priscilla
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: North America or North Americans
- Locales: Plymouth, MA
The Story:
Miles Standish was a gruff captain of the soldiers, whose wife had died after the landing of the Mayflower the previous fall. In the Pilgrim colony, he shared a cabin with John Alden, a young scholar. One night, Standish dropped his copy of Caesar’s Commentaries and turned to John, who was writing a letter in which he praised Priscilla, one of the young women of the colony. Standish spoke of the loneliness and weariness of his life, and of the fact that Priscilla, too, was living alone, her parents having died during the winter. Because he himself...
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