[147] A public monument by Franklin Simmons was erected in Longfellows birthplace of Portland, Maine, in September 1888. Aside from a leg injury that nearly resulted in amputation when he was eight, Henry apparently enjoyed his school friendships and outdoor recreation both in Portland and at his Grandfather Wadsworths new home in Hiram, Maine. 1807-1882 Ranked #33 in the top 500 poets. Born in Portland in 1807, when that bustling port city was still part of Massachusetts, Longfellow came from an old, established family of lawyers, judges, and generals. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's response to the reelection of Abraham Lincoln in 1864 is a timely reminder of how, while they all matter, some presidential elections matter much more than others. He's a visual artist and a political activist for the American Indian Movement. In Germany, Longfellow formed a close friendship with the poet Ferdinand Freiligrath, and in England he deepened an earlier acquaintance with Charles Dickens. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807 in Portland, to Stephen and Zilpah Longfellow. In an age that judged literature largely in moral terms as expressive of an authors personal virtues, Longfellow became a kindly, sympathizing, gently encouraging friend to an everyman reader. 198 likes. He spoke at least eight languages well and could . [67], On June 14, 1853, Longfellow held a farewell dinner party at his Cambridge home for his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was preparing to move overseas. It was probably the most celebrated American poem of the century. He entered Bowdoin College at the age of 15, and one of his classmates was Nathaniel Hawthorne; the two would remain lifelong friends. After translating Dante, he returned to the task he had long intended as the capstone of his workthe three-part chronicle of Christianity and its virtues initiated with The Golden Legend. The New England Tragedies a pairing of John Endicott (1857) and Giles Corey of the Salem Farms (1868)on which he had begun working around the time he composed The Courtship of Miles Standish, appeared in 1868. He produced one of the first complete, and in many respects still the best, English translations of The Divine Comedy in 1867. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1825. [1] The song tells of the narrator hearing Christmas bells during the American Civil War, but despairing that "hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on earth, good will to men". This harsh critical assessment, which tried to reduce him to the status of a mere hearthside rhymer, was perhaps as unbalanced as the adulation he had received during his lifetime. [128] He added, "Longfellow was no revolutionarie: never traveled new paths: of course never broke new paths. Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow. [61] They were soon married; Nathan Appleton bought the Craigie House as a wedding present, and Longfellow lived there for the rest of his life. -4 TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN. New Critics looked for ironies, ambiguities, and complexities not discoverable in Longfellows work and rejected the didactic conclusions he typically tacked onto his poems. His celebrity in his own time, however, has yielded to changing literary tastes and to reactions against the genteel tradition of authorship he represented. Flashcards. Other than being a poet of great repute; Longfellow was also an educationist, who was a professor at his alma mater Bowdoin College and latter at the Harvard College. He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England. The Fireside poets. In this essay, the author. [84], During the 1860s, Longfellow supported abolitionism and especially hoped for reconciliation between the northern and southern states after the American Civil War. After residing in Europe for four years to qualify for the Chair of Modern Languages in that College, he entered upon the duties of the same. For this work Longfellow drew on European sources, chiefly Hartmann von Aues Der Arme Heinrich (circa 1191). Longfellow wrote many lyric poems known for their musicality and often presenting stories of mythology and legend. Hyatt Waggoner observed the irony of Longfellows having been most appreciated in his own time for A Psalm of Life, noting that though it intends to mean that life is worth living after all, what it effectively does mean is that life must be worth living but the poet cant think why. She married Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poet, buried at this cem.) 4 In 1773, Parliament passed a law giving the English East India Company exclusive right to sell tea in America. Long after his death in 1882, however, these neglected later works were seen to contain some of his most effective writing. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was one of the most widely known and best-loved American poets of the 19th century. [135] As a friend once wrote, "no other poet was so fully recognized in his lifetime". The visitor then asked if he had died here. The marriage was an exceptionally happy one for both partners and brought Longfellow the domestic stability he had missed. Bowdoin College, when Henry and Stephen Longfellow arrived for the fall 1822 term, was a small and isolated school with a traditional curriculum and conservative Congregational leadership. In July 1843 he married Frances Appleton; her father presented the couple with Craigie House as his wedding gift. The Poet and His Song (1880). In essence, they needed to sell the tea to somebody, fast. 791. Life and Fame. [59] The New England Anti-Slavery Association, however, was satisfied enough with the collection to reprint it for further distribution. While readily dismissing Edgar Allan Poes charges of plagiarism, they acknowledged that Longfellow lacked the originality evident in Whitman, Emerson, and even Poe. [9] His grandfather was a founder of the college[12] and his father was a trustee. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Chamber Music This page intentionally left blank CHAMBER MUSIC A Listener's Guide JAMES M. KELLER 1 2011 3 Oxford University Press, Inc., publishes works that further Oxford University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education. Fanny's father Nathan Appleton gave Craigie House to the Longfellows as a wedding gift, and it became a meeting place for literary and philosophical figures such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Julia Ward Howe . He once attended a ball without her and noted, "The lights seemed dimmer, the music sadder, the flowers fewer, and the women less fair. [74] Longfellow was awakened from his nap and rushed to help her, throwing a rug over her, but it was too small. [36] Longfellow published several nonfiction and fiction prose pieces in 1833 inspired by Irving, including "The Indian Summer" and "The Bald Eagle". Fanny Longfellow took pride in her husbands growing reputation and actively assisted him. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882) was America's most beloved nineteenth-century poet, . 'Farewell! [16] In his senior year, Longfellow wrote to his father about his aspirations: I will not disguise it in the leastthe fact is, I most eagerly aspire after future eminence in literature, my whole soul burns most ardently after it, and every earthly thought centres in itI am almost confident in believing, that if I can ever rise in the world it must be by the exercise of my talents in the wide field of literature. Wife of Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Fanny Longfellow (1817-1861), wife of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was a skilled artist and was well-read in many subjects. This collection consisted of narrative poems composed in a great variety of metric patterns. [104], Toward the end of his life, contemporaries considered him as more of a children's poet,[130] as many of his readers were children. Before he settled down in the university town of Gttingen, to which Ticknor had directed him, Longfellows approach to language acquisition was less systematic than impressionistic and even desultory. He achieved a level of national and international prominence previously unequaled in the literary history of the United States and is one of the few American writers honored in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbeyin fact, he is believed to be the first as his bust was installed there in 1884. I do not believe that I was born for such a lot. American poet and educator. Longfellows long poem The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858) was another great popular success. For the actor, see, "Longfellow" redirects here. Lewiss first love was poetry, and it enabled him to write the prose for which he is remembered. It represented the medieval phase of Christianity and the virtue of faith (mixed, inevitably, with superstition) by dramatizing the story of a peasant girls willingness to die so that a prince might be healed of his illness. BOSTON: TICKNOR AND FIELDS. Some years after Longfellows death a violent reaction set in against his verse as critics dismissed his conventional high-minded sentiments and the gentle strain of Romanticism that he had made so popular. He was an excellent student whose skill in languages led the trustees at Bowdoin (of which his father was one) to offer the young graduate a professorship of modern languages. Born on February 27, 1807, in Portland (while Maine was still a part of Massachusetts), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow grew up in the thriving coastal city he remembered in My Lost Youth (1856) for its wharves and woodlands, the ships and sailors from distant lands who sparked his boyish imagination, and the historical associations of its old fort and an 1813 offshore naval battle between American and British brigs. [123] He wrote that Longfellow was "a determined imitator and a dextrous adapter of the ideas of other people",[122] specifically Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Died on March 24, 1882 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Although sales of individual later volumes never matched the popularity of his mid-career offerings, Longfellow lived to experience recognition and rewards seldom enjoyed by other writers. Both Craigie House in Cambridge and the beach home in Nahant, Massachusetts, where the Longfellows summered from the 1850s became centers of hospitality extended to American and European guestsmany of them literary figuresand Longfellows many admirers. Longfellows imitativeness differed significantly from that of many contemporaries, however, in that he early outgrew his tendency to echo Bryants style or that of English Romantic poets and turned instead to German Romanticism, which he virtually introduced into American poetry, and to traditions of European verse from many countries and eras. Longfellow attended private schools and the Portland Academy. [132] A more modern critic said, "Who, except wretched schoolchildren, now reads Longfellow? [68] In 1854, he retired from Harvard,[69] devoting himself entirely to writing. [96], As a very private man, Longfellow did not often add autobiographical elements to his poetry. He sailed from New York to Le Havre in May 1826 and spent the next three years rambling through Europes cities and countrysides, absorbing impressions of cultures and places, living with families in Paris, Madrid, and Rome, and developing linguistic fluency. He was engaged in ambitious projects. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote sixteen volumes of poetry, including some long poems. [58] A critic for The Dial agreed, calling it "the thinnest of all Mr. Longfellow's thin books; spirited and polished like its forerunners; but the topic would warrant a deeper tone". There he began courting Appleton's daughter Frances "Fanny" Appleton. Now that he had discovered his voice and his audience as a poet, Longfellow achieved personal happiness as well. [40] She did not recover and died after several weeks of illness at the age of 22 on November 29, 1835. [82] By 1868, Longfellow's annual income was over $48,000. one of the few truly successful English translations comes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a professor of Italian at Harvard and an acclaimed poet. Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed from a Skull 9. That same year Longfellow published Hyperion, a romantic novel idealizing his European travels. Most of us only get one life. Wisely improve the Present. Longfellow was doubtless drawn to the cross as an emblem of Christian suffering. He was honored in March 2007 when the United States Postal Service issued a stamp commemorating him. Of the lyrics Longfellow composed during that period, My Lost Youth is a memorable example of the poets reflection on his personal past. - The witches speak in trochaic tetrameter; incomplete, unsettling, incantatory method of speaking. [124] His accusations may have been a publicity stunt to boost readership of the Broadway Journal, for which he was the editor at the time. His original works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England.. Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, which was then still part of . [22] His time abroad lasted three years and cost his father $2,604.24,[23] the equivalent of over $67,000 today. Henry began his schooling at age three, when he and his older brother, Stephen, enrolled in the first of several private schools in which they prepared for entrance to Bowdoin College. Hoffmann,Hans Christian Andersen,William Butler Yeats,Henry van Dyke,Leo . [66] Longfellow published his epic poem Evangeline for the first time a few months later on November 1, 1847. Longfellow and Mary Potter were married in September 1831. [11] He studied at the Portland Academy until age 14. Need a transcript of this episode? Scholars generally regard the work as autobiographical, reflecting the translator as an aging artist facing his impending death. The mansion was the poet's home until he entered Bowdoin College in 1821. Longfellow's benign poetic temperament owes much to his full and fortunate life. [32], He published the travel book Outre-Mer: A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea in serial form before a book edition was released in 1835. His mother, Zilpah (Wadsworth) Longfellow, was the daughter of General Peleg Wadsworth, who had served in the American Revolution. In 1845, he published The Poets and Poetry of Europe, an 800-page compilation of translations made by other writers, including many by his friend and colleague Cornelius Conway Felton. The lovers, Evangeline and Gabriel, are reunited years later as Gabriel is dying. "[129] Lewis Mumford said that Longfellow could be completely removed from the history of literature without much effect. Each new book extended his fame, and he was bombarded with invitations for literary contributions and for autographs. Richard Henry Stoddard summed up Longfellows contribution in an 1881 essay, pointing out how Longfellow remained true to himself and to his scholarly impulses by creating and satisfying a taste for a literature which did not exist in this country until he began to write. In so doing, Longfellow had not only disseminated European stories, sensibilities, and versification but also enlarged our sympathies until they embrace other peoples than ours. Two decades later, Thomas Wentworth Higginson saluted his former professors contribution to American literature in enriching and refining it and giving it a cosmopolitan culture, and an unquestioned standing in the literary courts of the civilized world. [92] His published poetry shows great versatility, using anapestic and trochaic forms, blank verse, heroic couplets, ballads, and sonnets. Why did Henry Wadsworth Longfellow write a Psalm of Life? 'When We Two Parted' 8. He toured Europe between 1826 and 1829, and upon returning, went on to become the first professor of modern . Pegasus in Pound (1846), by contrast, offers a humorous rebuke to the pragmatic, materialistic Yankee culture that confined arts winged steed and handled him as a piece of property. His fathers book collection provided literary models of a neoclassical sort, and family storytelling acquainted him with New England lore dating to pilgrim days. New England storytelling traditions also engaged Longfellows attention in these years. Jimmie Durham(1) Jimmie Duraham is an American artist of Cherokee descent. [97] The death of his second wife Frances, as biographer Charles Calhoun wrote, deeply affected Longfellow personally but "seemed not to touch his poetry, at least directly". Sorrows beset them, however: from Copenhagen, Mary Goddard was summoned home by news of her fathers death; in Amsterdam the ailing Mary Potter Longfellow suffered a miscarriage in October 1835. After falling in love with 17-year-old Frances Appleton, Longfellow returned to Heidelberg to escort Marys friend Clara Crowninshield home to the US. [104] Even so, he called for the development of high quality American literature, as did many others during this period. [75], Longfellow was devastated by Frances death and never fully recovered; he occasionally resorted to laudanum and ether to deal with his grief. Born on February 27, 1807 in Portland, Maine, USA , United States. He became the most popular American poet of his day and had success overseas. The professorship was not created and Longfellow agreed to continue teaching at Bowdoin. Longfellow himself may have recognized that the sections did not cohere and that the historical sequence ended in anticlimax; he thought of adding another drama on the Moravians of Bethlehem to show the positive influence of the Gospel, but he never carried out his intention. Among the shorter poems of his late career, Longfellows sonnets are especially prized. [27] Irving encouraged the young Longfellow to pursue writing. His father, Stephen Longfellow, was an attorney and a Harvard graduate active in public affairs. At least as wearing as his original authorship in late years was a massive editorial and translation project he undertook for his publisher, James T. Fields; Poems of Places emerged in 31 volumes between 1876 and 1879. Analyzes how henry wadsworth longfellow refined american literature by reminding americans of their roots and in the process became an american icon himself. [98] His memorial poem to her was the sonnet "The Cross of Snow" and was not published in his lifetime. Longfellows achievements in fictional and nonfictional prose, in a striking variety of poetic forms and modes, and in translation from many European languages resulted in a remarkably productive and influential literary career. But parody did nothing to undermine the success of the book; even more marketable than Evangeline, Hiawatha sold 50,000 copies by 1860 and earned 7,000 dollars in royalties in its first decade. [47] The bulk of Voices of the Night was translations, but he included nine original poems and seven poems that he had written as a teenager. In many ways Longfellow may be read as a friend of American multiculturalism even if Hiawatha ultimately exocitizes Native peoples and their culture. Kramos and Other Poems appeared in 1878 with a title poem that linked Longfellows boyhood interest in Portland pottery with his later travels and readings to present a particularly effective statement of his poetics. [102] He was inspired, for example, by Norse mythology for "The Skeleton in Armor" and by Finnish legends for The Song of Hiawatha.[103]. In turn, he received homage from practitioners of other arts: composers set many of his poems to music, and artists illustrated many of his scenes. I have aimed higher than this". The most humorous and charming of his longer narrative poems, The Courtship of Miles Standish relates a story already familiar (especially in Longfellows family) about John Aldens fortunate failure in his dutiful attempt to woo the maiden he loves on behalf of the widowed captain of Plymouth, his friend Miles Standish. His first wife, Mary Potter, died in 1835 after a miscarriage. There is little action in the story as Longfellow tells it: the Acadians submit quietly to British tyranny; Gabriels adventures take place out of sight; and Evangelines quest involves a good deal of travel, admittedly, but no conflict. 'Well! It is a sentimental tale of two lovers separated when British soldiers expel the Acadians (French colonists) from what is now Nova Scotia. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. But, like anyone else who had gone to school in the first quarter of the 20th century, she'd been introduced to verse by the venerable Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82). As he had honored European poets by translating their work into English, he lived to see his own poems translated into 24 languages. Despite the frustrations Longfellow experienced in his new vocation, there was personal happiness. According to Charvat, by shrewd, aggressive, and intelligent management of the business of writing, he raised the commercial value of verse and thereby helped other American poets to get out of the garret. Previous boarders included Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, and Joseph Emerson Worcester. The book met with only modest success while deepening Fannys estrangement, sparking considerable Boston gossip, and drawing mixed but often hostile responses from reviewers. In that university town he met William Cullen Bryant, who had been a major influence on his early poetry and an inspiring model of American authorship. [97], Longfellow often used didacticism in his poetry, but he focused on it less in his later years. As was the custom for the time, the two brothers focused most of their studies on languages and literature. The book appeared in late October and was in its sixth edition by mid-January. . The leading poet of the Victorian era, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) contributed to the development of a distinctly American literature. 1807-1882. Sales of this book improved upon those for its predecessor; yet, Longfellow was disappointed by reader indifference to the work he had identified in an 1849 letter as the sublimer Song whose broken melodies have for so many years breathed through my soul. When all three parts finally came together in Christus: A Mystery, book sales were slight (only 6,000 copies printed) and critical response even less heartening. [13] He boarded with a clergyman for a time before rooming on the third floor[14] in 1823 of what is now known as Winthrop Hall. Longfellow gave poetry higher standing within American society than it had enjoyed ever before, not only by exemplifying the appeal of graceful, informed writing to an exceptionally wide reading audience but also by making art itself one of his themes. Even as our cloudy fancies take Suddenly shape in some divine expression, Even as the troubled heart doth . Omissions? Date February 1, 2007. [133] An editor of the Boston Evening Transcript wrote in 1846, "Whatever the miserable envy of trashy criticism may write against Longfellow, one thing is most certain, no American poet is more read". All were the children of his second wife, Fanny. . The first poem, Paul Reveres Ride, became a national favourite. Still committed to the native writers of the United States, he wrote a July 1837 review in praise of Hawthornes Twice-Told Tales (1837) even as he turned his own ambitions back toward the writing of poetry. See also the Longfellow entry in DLB 59: American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1800-1850. [17], He pursued his literary goals by submitting poetry and prose to various newspapers and magazines, partly due to encouragement from Professor Thomas Cogswell Upham. He also left a loving family and grateful readers who have continued to honor him by erecting statues and naming parks and schools for him, Evangeline, and Hiawatha. thou art happy' 10. A monument featuring a bas relief of Miles Standish, Sadalphon, the Village Blacksmith, the Spanish Student, Evangeline, and Hiawatha, characters from Longfellows works, was dedicated in October 1914. On this trip he visited England, Sweden, and the Netherlands. Longfellow managed to speak to the conflicts and at the same time to seem a safe haven, an anchor in the storm"("Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" Historic). 10. In Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria, and Germany he was welcomed and honored. [66] His literary income was increasing considerably; in 1840, he had made $219 from his work, but 1850 brought him $1,900. "[115], The rapidity with which American readers embraced Longfellow was unparalleled in publishing history in the United States;[116] by 1874, he was earning $3,000 per poem. Written for the 15th reunion of his Bowdoin College class, it is a memorable reflection on aging and is Longfellows most admired ode. Queen Victoria received Longfellow at Windsor Castle; the Prince of Wales invited him as a guest; and he visited with William Gladstone, John Russell, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Longfellow had become one of the first American celebrities and was popular in Europe. C.S. That poem appeared in one of those assemblages of short poems, identified as Birds of Passage, that Longfellow introduced in The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems and returned to frequently in subsequent volumes. Death Year: 1882. . 1909-14. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. The Harvard Classics. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" exemplify this form. Members included Cornelius Conway Felton, George Stillman Hillard, and Charles Sumner; Sumner became Longfellow's closest friend over the next 30 years. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - whose 200th birthday bicentennial is this month - has had four. [3] His mother was descended from Richard Warren, a passenger on the Mayflower. Other poems had local settingsfor example, The Bridge, which contrasted Longfellows newfound personal peace with the melancholy of his earlier years in a reflection on the bridge over the Charles River near his home. Longfellows translation, still respected for its linguistic appreciation and literary merit, appeared in an 1865-67 three-volume edition, although he completed the translation in spring 1864. It was reported that 10,000 copies of The Courtship of Miles Standish sold in London in a single day. [122] Poe's reputation increased as a critic, however, and he later publicly accused Longfellow of plagiarism in what Poe biographers call "The Longfellow War". 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