[9] His grandfather was a founder of the college[12] and his father was a trustee. Analyzes how henry wadsworth longfellow, born in portland, maine on february 27th, 1807, opened the eyes of americans everywhere through his rhythmic poetry. [31] Shortly after the book's publication, Longfellow attempted to join the literary circle in New York and asked George Pope Morris for an editorial role at one of Morris's publications. [112] In the January 23, 1828 issue of his magazine The Yankee, he wrote, "As for Mr. Longfellow, he has a fine genius and a pure and safe taste, and all that he wants, we believe, is a little more energy, and a little more stoutness. 1385 likes. "[104] A London critic in the London Quarterly Review, however, condemned all American poetry"with two or three exceptions, there is not a poet of mark in the whole union"but he singled out Longfellow as one of those exceptions. Longfellow attended private schools and the Portland Academy. Scholars generally regard the work as autobiographical, reflecting the translator as an aging artist facing his impending death. [83] He is buried with both of his wives at Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Aside from two Phi Beta Kappa poemsthe first at Bowdoin in 1832 and the other the next year at Harvardthe poetry he was composing consisted chiefly of translations from Romance languages that he used in his classes and articles. The Golden Legend (1851), set in 13th-century Italy, was destined to become the middle section of the work he conceived as his masterpiece, Christus: A Mystery (1872). [54] His friend George Stillman Hillard encouraged him in the pursuit: "I delight to see you keeping up so stout a heart for the resolve to conquer is half the battle in love as well as war". The Divina Commedia group of six sonnets written between 1864 and 1866 honor the Tuscan poet Dantemost memorably the first, with its image of the bereaved American poet leaving my burden at this minster gate, / Kneeling in prayer, and not ashamed to pray in a quest for spiritual peace. [50] Poet John Greenleaf Whittier said that Longfellow's poetry illustrated "the careful moulding by which art attains the graceful ease and chaste simplicity of nature". [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. He began working on a dramatic poem about Puritan persecution of the Quakers, which was eventually included in one of the three New England Tragedies within Christus. Even if time has proved him something less than the master poet he never claimed to be, Longfellow made pioneering contributions to American literary life by exemplifying the possibility of a successful authorial career, by linking American poetry to European traditions beyond England, and by developing a surprisingly wide readership for Romantic poetry. See also the Longfellow entry in DLB 59: American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1800-1850. [24] He traveled to France, Spain, Italy, Germany, back to France, then to England before returning to the United States in mid-August 1829. "[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. 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 . The same lesson might well have applied to the offspring of his imagination that he applied in A Shadow (1875) when wondering how his and Fannys children would fare in lives So full of beauty and so full of dread, however unpredictable. Need a transcript of this episode? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet who used narrative poems to memorialize people and events in American history, including Paul Revere. 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. [80] The full three-volume translation was published in the spring of 1867, but Longfellow continued to revise it. [97], Longfellow often used didacticism in his poetry, but he focused on it less in his later years. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, (born February 27, 1807, Portland, Massachusetts [now in Maine], U.S.died March 24, 1882, Cambridge, Massachusetts), the most popular American poet in the 19th century, known for such works as The Song of Hiawatha (1855) and "Paul Revere's Ride" (1863). He moved ahead to new dramatic poems, notably Judas Maccabeus in Three Books of Song (1872) and The Masque of Pandora (1875); Michael Angelo, his last major poem, appeared posthumously in 1883 in its unfinished condition. 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. [42] Three years later, he was inspired to write the poem "Footsteps of Angels" about her. The Day Is Done (1844) speaks to the comforting quiet offered the weary reader by some humbler poet than the Miltonic and Dantean mastersa poet such as Longfellow found himself becoming by virtue of the kindly, sympathetic tone that characterized his popular poems. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He suffered from neuralgia, which caused him constant pain, and he had poor eyesight. He wrote in his journal in 1878: "I have only one desire; and that is for harmony, and a frank and honest understanding between North and South". In 1831, he married Mary Potter, and they went on an extended tour of Europe. [70], Frances was putting locks of her children's hair into an envelope on July 9, 1861[71] and attempting to seal it with hot sealing wax while Longfellow took a nap. "Resignation" was written as a response to the death of his daughter Fanny in 1848; it does not use first-person pronouns and is instead a generalized poem of mourning. In this essay, the author. The New-Yorker called him "one of the very few in our time who has successfully aimed in putting poetry to its best and sweetest uses". Longfellow never considered it complete enough to be published during his lifetime, but a posthumous edition was collected in 1883. . [81] It went through four printings in its first year. Long after his death in 1882, however, these neglected later works were seen to contain some of his most effective writing. 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. 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. Hiawatha is an Ojibwa Indian who, after various mythic feats, becomes his peoples leader and marries Minnehaha before departing for the Isles of the Blessed. [50] The Southern Literary Messenger immediately put Longfellow "among the first of our American poets". Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was one of the most widely known and best-loved American poets of the 19th century. [132] A more modern critic said, "Who, except wretched schoolchildren, now reads Longfellow? The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by . [50] He became part of the local social scene, creating a group of friends who called themselves the Five of Clubs. Born on February 27 46. He wrote to friend Charles Sumner: "I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart". [16] When Longfellow graduated from Bowdoin, he was ranked fourth in the class and had been elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Most of his publications for the next few years involved textbooks for students of Spanish, French, and Italian. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a 19th century educationist and poet from America, who penned some of the most memorable poems in the history of American literature. if ever fondest prayer' 7. He followed this work with two fragmentary dramatic poems, Judas Maccabaeus and Michael Angelo. But his genius was not dramatic, as he had demonstrated earlier in The Spanish Student (1843). 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. I'm gwine." Two notable exceptions are dedicated to the death of members of his family. She died shortly after 10 the next morning, July 10, after requesting a cup of coffee. [108], In 1874, Longfellow oversaw a 31-volume anthology called Poems of Places which collected poems representing several geographical locations, including European, Asian, and Arabian countries. [73] Longfellow's youngest daughter Annie explained the story differently some 50 years later, claiming that there had been no candle or wax but that the fire had started from a self-lighting match that had fallen on the floor. Many of Longfellows efforts now took dramatic form, although none proved suitable for staging. Longfellow met Boston industrialist Nathan Appleton and his family in the town of Thun, Switzerland, including his son Thomas Gold Appleton. Paul Revere's Ride, for example, was first published in 1860, a time of dread and fear of the oncoming storm. [44] The home was built in 1759 and was the headquarters of George Washington during the Siege of Boston beginning in July 1775. Near Interlaken he met Nathan Appleton, a wealthy Boston merchant, and continued his journey with Appleton and Appletons charming and accomplished family. [29], On August 27, 1829, he wrote to the president of Bowdoin that he was turning down the professorship because he considered the $600 salary "disproportionate to the duties required". In 1909, a statue of Longfellow was unveiled in Washington, DC, sculpted by William Couper. [135] As a friend once wrote, "no other poet was so fully recognized in his lifetime". How many languages did he speak? American poet and educator. Now he plunged into work, translating at the rate of a canto a day. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy and was one of the five members of the group known as the . At college he was attracted especially to Sir Walter Scotts romances and Washington Irvings Sketch Book, and his verses appeared in national magazines. 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. [55] During the courtship, Longfellow frequently walked from Cambridge to the Appleton home in Beacon Hill in Boston by crossing the Boston Bridge. Corrections? [25] While overseas, he learned French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and German, mostly without formal instruction. [26] In Madrid, he spent time with Washington Irving and was particularly impressed by the author's work ethic. His fathers book collection provided literary models of a neoclassical sort, and family storytelling acquainted him with New England lore dating to pilgrim days. [127] Poet Walt Whitman considered him an imitator of European forms, but he praised his ability to reach a popular audience as "the expressor of common themesof the little songs of the masses". 1860. 'I Would I Were a Careless Child' 6. But the death in 1861 of his second wife, after she accidentally set her dress on fire, plunged him into melancholy. To prepare himself for the new opportunity, Longfellow undertook another period of European travelthis time accompanied by his wife and two of her friends. [40] She did not recover and died after several weeks of illness at the age of 22 on November 29, 1835. Many, especially Torquemada and The Saga of King Olaf, were surprisingly violent. Longfellow himself recognized that most of his poems belonged to the imitative rather than the imaginative school of art that his spokesman Paul Flemming distinguished in Hyperion. - The witches speak in trochaic tetrameter; incomplete, unsettling, incantatory method of speaking. Longfellow's popularity rapidly declined, beginning shortly after his death and into the 20th century, as academics focused attention on other poets such as Walt Whitman, Edwin Arlington Robinson, and Robert Frost. It was reported that 10,000 copies of The Courtship of Miles Standish sold in London in a single day. Despite some criticism of the Virgilian dactylic hexameter meter with which Longfellow experimented in Evangeline, the poem proved enormously successful. [141] As James Russell Lowell said, Longfellow had an "absolute sweetness, simplicity, and modesty". Yet, Longfellow achieved perhaps his greatest popular success with Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie, a verse romance the geographic sweep of which across French and English America in the 18th century makes it a virtual epic, although in the sentimental mode and featuring a heroine notable for her humble, loving endurance rather than military prowess. Longfellow began publishing his poetry in 1839, including the collection Voices of the Night, his debut book of poetry. Both the poem and its singsong metre have been frequent objects of parody. Despite relatively tepid public response to this effort, Longfellow persevered with The Divine Tragedy (1871), in which he represented Christian hope through dramatization of Christs Passion and its effects on many characters drawn from the Bible. [126] At Longfellow's funeral, his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson called him "a sweet and beautiful soul". Written for the 15th reunion of his Bowdoin College class, it is a memorable reflection on aging and is Longfellows most admired ode. Although the original story involved the maidens lifelong search only through New England, Longfellow extended its geographic range. [134], Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. [9] His mother encouraged his enthusiasm for reading and learning, introducing him to Robinson Crusoe and Don Quixote. He endured the pain for several days with the help of opium before he died surrounded by family on Friday, March 24. 1835 Some attribute the phrase to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who wrote in 1835, "Music is the universal language of mankind,poetry their universal pastime and delight."* Although the title character, the liberal-minded young minister of a rural New England church, is the central figure of a love triangle involving two close female friends, Cecilia Vaughan and Alice Archer, Longfellow probably took more interest in the schoolmaster, whose literary ambitions are continually frustrated by the press of teaching, fatherhood, and demands made on his time by an aspiring poetess. He entered Bowdoin College at the age of 15, and one of his classmates was Nathaniel Hawthorne; the two would remain lifelong friends. Please select which sections you would like to print: Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree. [48] Ballads and Other Poems was published in 1841[49] and included "The Village Blacksmith" and "The Wreck of the Hesperus", which were instantly popular. Elected to the Peucinian Society, he mixed with the academically ambitious students of the college (more serious than his brother or than classmates Nathaniel Hawthorne, Franklin Pierce, and Horatio Bridgeall belonging to the Athenean Society). She serves as a model of affection that hopes, and endures, and is patient. The crucial event of the story is the reunion that almost happens but fails, when Gabriels northward-bound boat passes at night by the one in which Evangeline and their priest are resting on their journey to his fathers new home. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. [86] The next year, he declined an offer to be nominated for the Board of Overseers at Harvard "for reasons very conclusive to my own mind". He considered moving to New York after New York University proposed offering him a newly created professorship of modern languages, but there would be no salary. [20] He gave the student commencement address. 198 likes. [41] He was deeply saddened by her death and wrote: "One thought occupies me night and dayShe is dead She is dead! In his grief Longfellow moved on to Heidelberg and immersion in German literaturereadings in Goethe, Schiller, Ludwig Uhland, Jean Paul Richter, E.T.A. [75] Longfellow had burned himself while trying to save her, badly enough that he was unable to attend her funeral. "[113], Longfellow's early collections Voices of the Night and Ballads and Other Poems made him instantly popular. Returning to Maine in summer 1829, Longfellow as a young professor soon found himself immersed in the unpoetic routines of pedagogy. 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. A Psalm of Life (1838) expresses both the confusion of his feelings in that time of discouragement and his resolve not to succumb to mournful passivity. [104] Even so, he called for the development of high quality American literature, as did many others during this period. [dropcap letter="O"]n a fine September morning in 1822 the fast stagecoach from Portland to Brunswick was . The volume In the Harbor, Ultima ThulePart 2 came out just after his death in 1882 and included his final composition, The Bells of San Blas (1882). [148], "Henry Wadsworth" redirects here. [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. one of the few truly successful English translations comes from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a professor of Italian at Harvard and an acclaimed poet. Longfellow and Mary Potter were married in September 1831. In Germany, Longfellow formed a close friendship with the poet Ferdinand Freiligrath, and in England he deepened an earlier acquaintance with Charles Dickens. . 'Adieu, Adieu! Similar to an epic, a narrative poem tells a story. [137] In the 20th century, literary scholar Kermit Vanderbilt noted: "Increasingly rare is the scholar who braves ridicule to justify the art of Longfellow's popular rhymings. That book also featured The Hanging of the Crane (1874), which had been Longfellows most remunerative poem when The New York Ledger paid him 3,000 dollars for its serial publication earlier that same year. Evangeline A Tale of Acadie Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) He produced one of the first complete, and in many respects still the best, English translations of The Divine Comedy in 1867. He was still writing learned essays for the North American Reviewthis time concentrating attention on Teutonic languages, including Swedish and early English. 1807-1882 Ranked #33 in the top 500 poets. Hiawatha introduces his tribe to agriculture through his encounter with the corn god Mondamin, to transportation by inventing the birch canoe, and to picture-writing. 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. Request a transcript here. [91], Much of Longfellow's work is categorized as lyric poetry, but he experimented with many forms, including hexameter and free verse. Both seaside and fireside come together in The Fire of Drift-Wood, a mood piece employing imagery of light and warmth drawn from shipwreck as a metaphor for intuited estrangement among friends. [142] In reality, his life was much more difficult than was assumed. See answer (1) Copy. 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. Longfellow was doubtless drawn to the cross as an emblem of Christian suffering. 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. Although many of the poems had been written and even published separately beforehand, they were loosely held together in this book by the fiction of an assemblage of friends entertaining each other by storytelling at a Sudbury, Massachusetts, inn. Analyze Longfellow's poetry and understand his . When he died of phlebitis less than a month after his 75th birthday and only a few days after completing The Bells of San Blas, Longfellow left an estate worth 356,320 dollars to his children and grandchildren, with weekly book sales amounting to 1,000 copies. In 1854 he resigned his Harvard professorshippartly because of his eyesight, partly for relief from academic pressures and contention with the university corporation on behalf of his department, but probably most of all because he found he could support his household on the strength of his poetry and desired more opportunity for writing. [77] He worried that he would go insane, begging "not to be sent to an asylum" and noting that he was "inwardly bleeding to death". [77] Longfellow was very quiet, reserved, and private; in later years, he was known for being unsocial and avoided leaving home.[144]. [99] Much of his poetry imparts cultural and moral values, particularly focused on life being more than material pursuits. 07 Nov 1786 in Pittsfield, MA, d. 10 Feb 1822. [37], In December 1834, Longfellow received a letter from Josiah Quincy III, president of Harvard College, offering him the Smith Professorship of Modern Languages with the stipulation that he spend a year or so abroad. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on February 27, 1807 in Portland, to Stephen and Zilpah Longfellow. [56] Amidst this, he fell into "periods of neurotic depression with moments of panic" and took a six-month leave of absence from Harvard to attend a health spa in the former Marienberg Benedictine Convent at Boppard in Germany. . [143] He had difficulty coping with the death of his second wife. Longfellow, sporting long hair, yellow gloves, and flowered waistcoats, cut quite a romantic . John and Priscilla Alden's love story was popularized by The Courtship of Miles Standish, a narrative poem published by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John and Priscilla Alden's descendant, in 1858. In poems throughout his career, he represented persons of all times, cultures, and states of life as turning to creative expression (music, song, poetry, storytelling, and pottery) for entertainment and reassurance. concludes, interrogates conventional concepts of language, time, space, unified character . He spent much of his summers as a child at his grandfather Peleg's farm in Hiram, Maine. [106] He encouraged and supported other translators, as well. She married Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poet, buried at this cem.) 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. The independent-minded Fanny was not interested in marriage, but Longfellow was determined. UNIVE'RSITY PRESS: WELCH, BIGELOW, AND COMPANY, CAMBRIDGE. After a brief period of boarding on Professors Row in Cambridge, Longfellow found lodging in the Craigie mansion on Brattle Street, occupying the room that had once been George Washingtons headquarters. [123] He wrote that Longfellow was "a determined imitator and a dextrous adapter of the ideas of other people",[122] specifically Alfred, Lord Tennyson. That same year Longfellow published Hyperion, a romantic novel idealizing his European travels. Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine, which was then still part of Massachusetts. He spoke at least eight languages well and could . The stimulus Henry Longfellow found there came less from classes or the library (open one hour a day and allowing students only limited borrowing privileges) than from literary societies. [22] His time abroad lasted three years and cost his father $2,604.24,[23] the equivalent of over $67,000 today. But what sticks in the mind, and stirs the heart, are those "sun-defying" depths, where we are too numb to feel . His son was injured during the war, and he wrote the poem "Christmas Bells", later the basis of the carol I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day. Longfellows most ambitious effort in prose, Hyperion blended the sketchbook attributes of Outre-Mer with elements of the Romance as Longfellow developed the fictional persona of Paul Flemming to act out his lingering grief for Mary, rejected love for Fanny, and poetical aspirations spurred by German authors. The familys domestic bliss, however, was about to be shattered. He possessed great metrical skill, but he failed to capture the American spirit like his great contemporary Walt Whitman, and his work generally lacked emotional depth and imaginative power. My . SOLO: Evangeline, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow-neb. Longfellow's benign poetic temperament owes much to his full and fortunate life. 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. [10] He published his first poem in the Portland Gazette on November 17, 1820, a patriotic and historical four-stanza poem called "The Battle of Lovell's Pond". [94] Much of his work is recognized for its melodious musicality. At present, however, Longfellow has been relegated to the status of an historically interesting minor poet whose poems occupy only a few pages in recent anthologies and do so in ways that obscure the reasons for his original popularity. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). Ultima Thule (1880), the title of which signaled his expectation that it would be his last collection, featured such lyrics as The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls (1879) and LEnvoi. 791. Today, Longfellow's face and words still appear on a variety of consumer goods. 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. Poems to integrate into your English Language Arts classroom. [65] Both accounts state that Frances was taken to her room to recover, and a doctor was called. [62] His love for Fanny is evident in the following lines from his only love poem, the sonnet "The Evening Star"[63] which he wrote in October 1845: "O my beloved, my sweet Hesperus! Wiki User. 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