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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 2 : birth, childhood, and youth (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 3 : first Flights in authorship (search)
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Chapter 4: literature as a pursuit
Longfellow graduated at Bowdoin College in June, 1825.
There was in his mind, apparently, from the first, that definiteness of purpose which is so often wanting when a student takes his first college degree.
There was for him no doubt or hesitation: it must be literature or nothing; and this not merely from a preference for the pursuit, but from an ambition, willingly acknowledged, to make a name in that direction.
He writes to his friend, George W. We re children who with next to no schooling will prattle readily in three or four languages with equal inaccuracy but with equal ease; while a much older person may acquire them by laborious study and yet never feel at home.
One can hardly doubt Longfellow's natural readiness in that direction; he was always being complimented, at any Rate—though this may not count for much— upon his aptness in pronouncing foreign tongues, and the ease with which his own compositions lent themselves to translatio
Chapter 5: first visit to Europe
Longfellow's college class (1825) numbered thirty-seven, and his rank in it at graduation was nominally fourth—though actually r George Ticknor, then holding the professorship at Harvard College to which Longfellow was destined to succeed at a later day. Professor Ticknor had himself recentl spirits prevail over everything.
Washington Irving, in his diary, speaks of Longfellow at Madrid as having arrived safely and cheerily, having met with no robbers.
ican themes.
It is to be noticed that whatever was artificial and foreign in Longfellow's work appeared before he went to Europe; and was the same sort of thing whic borne in mind that, as Mr. Scudder has pointed out in his admirable paper on Longfellow and his Art, the young poet was really preparing himself in Europe for his li r's Men and Letters, 28, 29.
As an illustration of this obvious fact that Longfellow, during this first European visit, while nominally training himself for purel
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 6 : marriage and life at Brunswick (search)
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Chapter 24: Longfellow as a man
Longfellow always amused himself, as do most public men, with the confused and contradictory descriptions of his personal appearLongfellow always amused himself, as do most public men, with the confused and contradictory descriptions of his personal appearance: with the Newport bookseller who exclaimed, Why, you look more like a sea captain than a poet!
and a printer who described him as a hale, portly, fine-looking m he well-shaped mouth, and altogether the expression of Henry Wordsworth [sic] Longfellow's face was most winning.
He was dressed very fashionably— almost too much so scription of a visit to Craigie House, in 1878, he says: If asked to describe Longfellow's appearance, I should compare him to the ideal representations of early Chri aying to his followers and brethren, Little children, love one another! . . . Longfellow has had the rare fortune of being thoroughly appreciated in his own country and out of place, to do more here than allude to the universal popularity of Longfellow's works wherever English is spoken; I believe it is not an exaggeration to sa