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SPARE MOMENT PAGE

Longfellow, the Poet TO-DAY IN who never found

HISTORY:

By Claud Golding

fault or complained of his lot

No foreign puet ever got closer to In 1843 appeared "The Spanish

the heart of an Englishman than Student," a play in three pets, and two Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

years later The Poets and Poetry of The Europe."

Who is not familiar with Village Blacksmith." "Excelsior." "The Wreck of the Hesperus," and "A Psalm af Life," to mention a few

His greatest work, "Evangeline," of his smaller poems?

was published in 1847. It is the story Consider, too, what An institution of a young couple who were separated "Hiawatha."

Coleridge-Taylor's on the day of their wedding. through musle, has became in this country. the removal by the British Govern- When the bust of Longfellow was ment of a colony of French settlers placed in the Poet's Corner in West- trom Acadle (Nova Scotia) in 1755.

it

The bride is depicted wandering in minster Abbey in 1884 wns л testimony of England's love and re-search of her husband. Finally, she

discovers him an old man spect for this great American poet,

said Charles Kingsley once

that deathbed in a hospital which she had beautiful joined as a nurse. Longfellow had the most human face he had ever seen. He with his was extremely handsome broad forehead, his clear eyes, straight nose and perfect Hips and chin.

In later years his long hair was silvery white, matching his long beard.

on his

"The noble three,

Who half my life were more than

friends to me,"

The death of Agassiz was a great blow, and whép Sumner also died he wrote:

"Thou hast but taken thy lamp

and gone to bed;

I stay a little longer, as one steps To cover up the embers that still

burn."

In the last years of his life Long- fellow suffered from rheumatism, but was always cheerful though never free from pain.

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Via Manila, Singaporo, Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Suez Canal, Naples, Genoa and Marseilles. Pres. Hayes Pres. Wilson

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He wrote some of tils best poems nt this period.

This poem attained a wide popular. ity in England.

One of the poems in the collection, "Seaside and the Fircalde," contains

At the beginning of 1802 he was "Hymn for my Brother's Ordination." confined to his room with frequent recoveries His brother, the Rev. Samuel Long-periods of dizziness, His fellow, was a pastor of the Unitarian were merely temporary, and on March Church.

10 he was seized with peritonitis and

Longfellow was made an LL.D. of

It would be difficult for a biogra- Longfellow resigned his professor-died on the 24th. pher to find anything in the life of ship in 1854. and next year he He was buried two days later near Longfellow. The high moral tone of published his "Song of Hiawatha," his three friends in Mount Auburn his poems reflects his own ideals and (and, in 1850, "The Courtship of Miles cemetery.

lustrates his character,

Standish," dealing with an incident in Longfellow was always accessible: the early history of the American Bowdoin College in 1825, of Harvard never too busy to talk to a coller, or colony.

in 1859, and of Cambridge (England) write a letter of sympathy to a suffer- In 1861 Longfellow was bereaved in 1868. He was made a D.CL. of er. Sometimes children would hang by the death of his wife through her Oxford in 1860, and in 1873 he was round his garden at Craigie House, dress catching fire, and it was a long elected a member of the Itusslan once occupied by George Washington, time before he recovered from the Academy of Selence. hoping to get a glimpse of the poet. blow,

He would never turn them away. It was two years before he publish- and always assumed that they had led Tales of a Wnyside Inn.' "The The poel was never known to find Washington's study. Children's Hour," one of his Household fault with anyone. Even in his old Taking them by the hand he would Poems (1885), illustrates the happiness age, when his body was wracked with show them where the great General fof his life with his five children, two suffering and life was "cold and had worked.

sons and three daughters.

dreary." be never complained. He was never known to refuse to

More than any of his poems, "A write his autograph. So long as he

Psalm of Life" scerns to illustrate his could write he would sign his name In his "Book of Sonnets" are five outlook on life: for anyone who asked him to do, so. sonnets entitled "Three Friends of Many a young writer was assisted Mine," the friends being Cornelius by Longfellow, and even when the Felton. Louis Agassiz, and Charles half-demented Edgar Allan Poe was Sumner, whom he calls: making scurrilous attacks धा him. Longfellow was giving enthusiastic lectures on Poe's poetry.

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Langfellow was born at. Portland, Moine, on February 27, 1807. An ancestor, William Longfellow, had im- migrated to Newbury. Massachusetts, from Yorkshire in 1676.

that

The poet was the son of Stephen Longfellow. a lawyer and United States congressman. He was born in what was little more than a village;

coloured hener his poems are

with village scenery,

Twenty-five miles away from his home was Brunswick, In ፡፡ region famous for romantic stories of Indians, nestling among "primeval pines." 11 was at a college in this town Longfellow graduated. -Before-ho had reached the age of 18 he had written poems, and during his college Bfe he wrote several pieces for the United States Library Gazette, nt Baston, magazine published These were printed in a late edition of his works. Among them is the "Burial of the Minnesink," the "Hymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem at the Consceration of Pulaski's Ban- "Woods Winter," and "April

ner... Day."

Some of these show qualities never surpassed by Longfellow.

After his college life, Longfellow spent a period in the law office of his father, but he was soon appoint- ed to a professorship of modern langu- ages at his college, and travelled for soine years to perfect himself for his duties.

to

He visited Spain and Germany, and in 1835 he was chosen successor Professor Tickner, professor of mo- dern languages and literature at the university of Cambridge, near Boston.

On receiving appointment

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Longfellow soon settled down In Boston, attracted by its cultivated society.

In 1839 he published "Hyperion: a Romance," and his first volume of poetry entitled "Voices of the Night." "Hyperion," which gave a-record of his travels, was extremely popular. Five years later he published small volume of ballads which includ ed "The Skeleton in Armour," "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "The Village Blacksmith" and "Excelsior."

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In the same year he paid his third

FEBRUARY 27

BORN:

Henry Wadsworth Long- fellow, American Poet,

1807.

DIED:

John Evelyn, diarist, 1705.

vlait_to Europe, spending the summer on the Rhine.

Returning to America, he wrote on the ship his "Poems on Slavery," which opened the eyes of the New England" youth and led indirectly to | the Civil War.

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