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TO foreign poet ever go; closer to the heart of an Englishman than Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with Who is not familiar

"The Village Blacksmith," "Excelsior," "The Wreck of the Hesperus," and "A Psalm of Life," to mention a few of his His greatest work, "Evangeline,"

was published in 1847. It is the story smaller poems?

Consider, too, what an institution of a young couple who were separated

to "Hiawatha,"

Coleridge-Taylor's on the day of their wedding through music, has become in this country. the removal by the British Govern- When the bust of Longfellow was ment of a colony of French settlers

In the last years of his life Long-Pres. Hayes placed in the Poet's Corner in West- from Acadie (Nava Scotia) in 1755.

fellow suffered from rheumatism, but Pres. Wilson it

The bride is depicted wandering in minster Abbey In 1884

was always cheerful though neverPres. Monroe testimony of England's love and research of her husband. Finally, she free from pain,

Pres. Adams discovers him-an old man on his spect for this great American poet.

He still continued to see all visitors, Pres. Harrison that deathbed in a hospital which she had and never refused to help n said Charles Kingsley once

down-Pres. Polk Longfellow had the most beautiful joined as a nurse.

and-out. human face he had ever seen. He This poem altained a wide popular-

He wrote some of his best pocins at with histy in England. was extremely handsome

this period. broad forcheact, his elep eyes, straight nose and perfect lips tells.

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

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One of the poems in the collection, "Seaside and the Fireside," contains "Hymn for my Brother's Ordination." His brother, Ute Rev. Samuel Long fellow, was a pastor of the Unitarian Church,

Longfellow resigned his professor- ship in 1854, and next year he published his "Song of Hiawatha," and, in 1858, "The Courtship of Miles Standish," dealing with an incident in American the early history of the colony.

At the beginning of 1882 he was frequent confined to his room with

recoveries periods of dizziness. His were merely temporary, and on March 19 he was seized with perhonitis and died the 24th.

He was buried two days later near his three friends in Mount Auburn cemetery,

on

Longfellow was made an LL.D. of Bowdoin College in 1828, of Horvard in 1859, and of Cambridge (England) In 1861 Longfellow was bereaved in 1968, He was made a DCL of by the death of his wife through her Oxford in 1869, and in 1873 he was of the Russian dress catching fire, and it was a long elected a member time before he recovered from the Academy of Science. blow.

It would be difficult for a blogra- pher to find anything in the life of Longfellow. The high moral tone of his poems reflects his own ideals and illustrates his character.

Longfellow was always accessible; never too busy to talk to a caller, or write a letter of sympathy to a suffer. er. Sometimes children would hang round his garden at Craigie House, once occupied by George Washington, hoping to get a glimpse of the poet.

ile would never turn, them away. It was two years before he publish- and always assumed that they had ed "Tales of a Wayside Inn.' come to see Washington's study. Children's Hour," one of his Household Taking them by the hand he would Poems (1805), Illustrates the happiness show them where the great General of his. ilfe with his five children, two

sons and three daughters. had worked.

He was never known to refuse to write his autograph. So long as he could write he would sign his name

The

In his "Book of Sonnets" are five

of

for anyone who asked him to do so. sonnets entitled 'Three Friends

Many a young writer was assisted | Mine," by Longfellow, and even when

the friends being Cornelius i

the Felton. Louls Agassiz, and Charles; half-demented Edgar Allan Poe was Sumner, whom he calls: making scurrilous

attacks On him,

Lengfellow was giving enthusiastic

lectures on Poe's poetry.

此

Longfellow was born at Portland, 1807. An Msing, on February 27, ancestor, William Longfellow, had im- migrated to Newbury, Massachusetta, I from Yorkshire in 1070.

The poet was the son of Stephen Longfellow, a lawyer and United States congressman. He was born in what was lille more than a village: with hence his poems are coloured village scenery,

Twenty-ave miles away from his, home was Brunswick, In a region' famous for romantic stories of Indians, It nestling among "primeval pines." was at a college in this town Longfellow graduated.

that

Before he had reached the age of 18 he had written poems, and during his college life he wrote several pieces for the United States Library Gazette,

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a magazine published at Boston. EUROPE These were printed in a late edition of his works. Among them is the "Burial of the Minnesink," the "Hymn of the Moravion Nuns of Bethlehem at the Consecrallon of Pulaski's Ban- ner." "Woods in Winter," and "April Day."

Some of these show qualities never surpassed by Longfellow.

After his college life. Longfellow spent u period in the law office of his father, but he was soon appoint- ed to a professorship of modern langu- ages at als college, and traveled for some years to perfec: himself for his duties.

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He visited Spain and Germany, and in 1035 he was chosen successor Professor Tickner, professor of mo- dern languages and llerature at the university of Cambridge, near Boston. On receiving this appointment he

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The poet was never known to And fault with anyone. Even in his old age, when his body was wracked with was "cold and suffering and life dreary," he never complained.

More than any of his poems, "A Psalm of Life" seems to illustrate his outlook on life:

"Life is real! Life is carnest!

And the grave is not its goal: 'Dust thou art, to dust returnest;

Was not spoken of the soul."

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In 1839 he published "Hyperion: a volume of Romance," and his first poetry entitled "Valces of the Night." Hyperion," which gave a record of his travels, was extremely popular.

Five years later he published o small volume of ballads which includ- ed The Skeleton. In Armour," "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "The Village Blacksmith" and "Excelsior."

In the same year he paid his third

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Henry Wadsworth Long- fellow, American Poet, 1907.

DIED:

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