The Song of Hiawatha (Coleridge-Taylor) the 1929 "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast", with Elsie Suddaby, George Baker and Howard Fry. The work has declined in popularity of recent years, but is still sometimes revived, such as a centenary performance in Boston in October 1998. The Song of Hiawatha (Coleridge-Taylor) The Song of Hiawatha (full name: Scenes from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), Op. 30, is a trilogy of cantatas written by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor between 1898 and 1900. The first part, Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, was particularly famous for many years and made the composer's name known throughout the world. "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast" consists of nine
The Bridge (long poem) Brooklyn Bridge, and which was actually the first part of the overall poem finished despite its reservation for the end. Upon its publication, "The Bridge" received mostly negative reviews. Yvor Winters, a contemporary and friend of Crane's who had praised Crane's previous book, "White Buildings", wrote one such review, in which he associated Crane's book with Modernist works by James Joyce and William Carlos Williams. Due to his disparaging views toward Modernism as a whole, Winters viewed such an association negatively. In Winter's own words, "The Bridge" "has no narrative framework and so lacks the formal unity of an epic."