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An epic narrative poem dramatizes the ordeal of a man grievously mauled by a bear and abandoned by his companions, then forced to endure injury, solitude, and the wilderness as he crawls back toward civilization, motivated by survival and a quest for retribution. Rich river-and-plains imagery and scenes of camps, boats, and encounters with indigenous peoples evoke the early fur-trade landscape, while reflective passages examine courage, endurance, and the harsh logic of frontier existence. Accompanying notes and an introductory essay provide historical background and frame the narrative within regional oral and exploratory traditions.

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Title: The Song of Hugh Glass

Author: John G. Neihardt

Commentator: Julius T. House

Release date: December 4, 2016 [eBook #53667]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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THE SONG OF HUGH GLASS
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO · DALLAS
ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO
MACMILLAN & CO., Limited
LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA
MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, Ltd.
TORONTO

THE SONG OF HUGH GLASS

BY
JOHN G. NEIHARDT
WITH NOTES
BY
JULIUS T. HOUSE
Head of the Department of English at the State Normal School, Wayne, Nebraska
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1921
All rights reserved

Copyright, 1915, 1919,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1915.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

TO SIGURD, SCARCELY THREE
When you are old enough to know
The joys of kite and boat and bow
And other suchlike splendid things
That boyhood’s rounded decade brings,
I shall not give you tropes and rhymes;
But, rising to those rousing times,
I shall ply well the craft I know
Of shaping kite and boat and bow,
For you shall teach me once again
The goodly art of being ten.
Meanwhile, as on a rainy day
When ‘tis not possible to play,
The while you do your best to grow
I ply the other craft I know
And strive to build for you the mood
Of daring and of fortitude
With fitted word and shapen phrase,
Against those later wonder-days
When first you glimpse the world of men
Beyond the bleaker side of ten.