‘Poetic Truths: Hawthorne, Longfellow, and American Visual Culture, 1840-1880’ Explores the Relationship Between Literary Works and the Arts
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College Museum of Art (BCMA) presents the exhibition Poetic Truths: Hawthorne, Longfellow, and American Visual Culture, 1840-1880, which marks the bicentennial of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø±¬ÍøÕ¾ College’s renowned Class of 1825. Members of this Class of 1825, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow created some of the most popular literature in nineteenth-century America. Poetic Truths features artworks inspired by Hawthorne's novels The Scarlet Letter (1850), The House of the Seven Gables (1851), and The Marble Faun: or, the Romance of Monte Beni (1860) as well as Longfellow's epic poems Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (1847) and The Song of Hiawatha (1855).
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