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HISTORY:
By Claud Golding
fault or complained of his lot
No
To foreign poet ever got closer to the heart of an Englishman than Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,
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In 1843 oppeared "The Spanish Student," a play in three acts, and two years later The Poets and Poetry of Europe.”
"The noble three,
Who half my life were more than
friends to me."
The death of Agassiz was a great blow, and when Sumner also died he wrote:
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and gone to bed;
I stay a little longer, as one stays
To cover up the embers that still
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Who is not familiar with The Village Blacksmith," "Excelsior," "The Wreck of the Hesperus," and "A Psalm of Life," to mention a few of his His greatest work, "Evangeline,” smaller poems?
was published in 1847. It is the story Consider too, what an institution of a young couple who were separated "Hawatha," to 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 Comer in West- from Acadie (Nova Scotia) in 1755.
fellow suffered from rheumatism, but The bride is depicted wandering in was always cheerful though Wis minster Abbey in 1884 It testimony of England's love and. research of her husband. Finally, she free from pain.
discovers him an old man on his spect for this great American poet.
Charles Kingsley once spid
that deathbed in a hospital which she had Longfellow had the most beautiful joined as a nurse. human face he had ever seen. with was extremely handsome broad forehead, his clear eyes, straight One of the poems in the collection, nose and perfect lips and chin. "Seaside and the Fireside," contains In later years his long hair was "Hymn for my Brother's Ordination silvery white, matching his long beard. His brother, the Rev. Samuel Long
fellow, was a pastor of the Unitarian were merely temporary, and on March 19 he was seized with peritonlifs and
He This рост attained a wide popular- his Ity in England.
He still continued to see all visitors, and never refused to help a
down ond-out.
He wrote some of his best poems at this
period. At the beginning of 1882 he was frequent confined to his room with
recoveries periods of dizziness. His
Pres. Adama Pres. Harrison Pres.' Polk
It would be difault for n blogea-pogfoliow resigned his professor-died on the 24th.
He was buried two days later near pher to find anything in the life of ship in 1054, and next year he 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 1858, The Courtship of Milles cemetery. Illustrates his character.
Standish," dealing with an incident in Longfellow was made on LL.D. of Longfellow was always accessible: the early history of the American Bowdoin College in 1828, of Harvard never too busy to talk to a caller, or colony.
in 1859, and of Cambridge (England) write a letter of sympathy to a suffer- er. Sometimes children would hang round his garden at Cralgie House, once occupied by George Washington, hoping to get a glimpse of the poet,
ite would never turn them away. and always assumed that they had ed "Tales of a Wayside Inn." "The The poet was rever known to and come to see
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 (1605), illustrates the happiness age, when his body was wracked with show them where the great General of his life with his five children, two suffering and life was "cold and had worked.
sons and three daughters.
dreary," he never complained"
In 1881 Longfellow was bereaved in 1808. He was made a D.C.L. of by the death of his wife through her Oxford in 1800, and in 1873 he was dress catching fire, and It was a long elected a member of the Russian ime before he recovered from the Academy of Science. blow.
It was two years before he publish-
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He was never known to refuse to write his autograph. So long as he
In his ""Book of Sonnets" are five could write he would sign his name for anyone who asked him to do so. sonnets entitled "Three Friends of Many a young writer was assisted Mine," the friends being Cornellus by Longfellow, and even when the Felton, Louis Agassiz, and Charles half-demented Edgar Allan Poe was Summer, whom he calls:
making scurrilous attacks
on hirn,
Longfellow was giving enthusiastle lectures on Poe's poetry.
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Longfellow was born at Portland, Maine, on February 27, 1807. An ancestor, William Longfellow. had im- migrated to Newbury. Massachusetts, from Yorkshire in 1076.
The poet was the son of Stephen Longfellow, a lawyer and United Stales congressman. He was born in what was little more than a village; hence 'his poems are coloured with village scenery.
Twenty-five miles away from bls home was Brunswick, in a region famous for romantic stories of Indians, nestling among "primeval pines." i that was at a college in this town Longfellow graduated.
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,
magazine published at Boston, These were printed in a late edition of his works. Among them is the "Burial of the Minnesink," the "ymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethichem at the Consecration of Pulaski's Ban- ner," "Woods in Winter," and "April Day."
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Some of these show qualities never surpassed by Longfellow.
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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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After his college life, Longfellow -spent a period in the law office of his father, but he was soon appoint- BUANGHAI = JAPAN Scharoburst Stangkel, Yokohama, Kobe, ed to a professorship of modern langu- ages at his college, and travelled for some years to perfect himself for his duties.
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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.
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In 1839 he published "Hyperion; a volume of Romance," and his first poetry entitled "Voices of the Night.". "Hyperion," which gave a record of his travels, was extremely popular.
Five years later he published a 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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BORN:
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John Evelyn, diarist, 1700.
visit 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.
In 1843 he married for the second time, his wife being Miss Frances Elizabeth Appleton, of Boston, daughter of the Ion, Nathan Appleton. About the same time he bought Craigie House, built about the begin- ning of the 18th century, and occupied by George Washington In 1770. – Tals was his chief residence to the date of his death.
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