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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 4 0 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Chapter 4: Longfellow (search)
titles of these early sketches. He was three years abroad and wrote to his sister, My poetic career is finished. On his return in 1829 he became Professor in Bowdoin College. He still wrote, If ever I publish a volume of poetry it will be many years first --it being actually nine. He published text-books and wrote Outre-Mer, the first sketches for which originally appeared in the New England Magazine. In 1831 he was married to the daughter of the Hon. Barrett Potter of Portland, Mary Storer Potter. She came of a family noted for a beauty which is prolonged into the present generation, and even the inadequate portrait of her, which is in their possession, vindicates the tradition. It shows her to have had dark hair-dressed high, in the fashion of those times — with deep blue eyes, a sweet expression, and dignified though dainty bearing. Her mental training had some peculiar characteristics, owing to the traditions of the period and the whims of her father, who believed Latin
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Olde Cambridge, Index (search)
6; European work, 117-118; early sketches, 118-119; marriage, 119-122; removal to Cambridge, 123; friendships, 124; Craigie House, 124-127; appearance, 128-129; second marriage, 130; Hiawatha, 131; Evangeline, 131; Psalm of life, 131-133; Hyperion, 134; diaries, 134-135; troublesome correspondents, 136; influence upon music, 137; kind words to Poe, 137; critics, 138; translations, 140; college work irksome, 141; as a teacher, 142-143; death, 144; 147, 150, 170. Longfellow, Mrs. H. W. (Mary S. Potter), 119, 122. Longfellow, Mrs. H. W. (Frances M. Appleton), 130. Longhorn, Thomas, 9. Lowell, C. R., 159. Lowell, Gen. C. R., Jr., 183. Lowell, Rev., Charles, 16, 116. Lowell, Maj. J. J., 183. Lowell, J. R., 16, 21, 24, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 36, 37, 38, 44, 46, 47, 48, 51, 53, 58, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69, 70, 85, 86, 89, 90, 105, 107, 111, 112, 114, 124, 125, 127, 129, 135, 141; influence of Cambridge, 147; love of Elmwood, 148; Tory Row, 150; traditions of Elmwood, 151-153;