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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 2: birth, childhood, and youth (search)
a brick house built by General Wadsworth in Portland, and still known as the Longfellow house; but it was during a temporary residence of the family at the house of Samuel Stephenson, whose wife was a sister of Stephen Longfellow, that Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born. He was the second son, and was named for an uncle, Henry Wadsworth, a young naval lieutenant, who was killed in 1804 by the explosion of a fire-ship, before the walls of Tripoli. The Portland of 1807 was, according to Dr. Dwight,—who served as a sort of travelling inspector of the New England towns of that period,—beautiful and brilliant; but the blight of the Embargo soon fell upon it. The town needed maritime defences in the war of 1812, and a sea-fight took place off the coast, the British brig Boxer being captured during the contest by the Enterprise, and brought into Portland harbor in 1813. All this is beautifully chronicled in the poem My Lost Youth: — I remember the sea-fight far away, How it thundered o<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 3: first Flights in authorship (search)
ry from Bowdoin College. A modest volume of Miscellaneous Poems, selected from the United States literary Gazette, appeared in 1826,—the year after Longfellow left college,—and it furnished by far the best exhibit of the national poetry up to that time. The authors represented were Bryant, Longfellow, Percival, Dawes, Mellen, and Jones; and it certainly offered a curious contrast to that equally characteristic volume of 1794, the Columbian Muse, whose poets were Barlow, Trumbull, Freneau, Dwight, Humphreys, and a few others, not a single poem or poet being held in common by the two collections. This was, however, only a volume of extracts, but it is the bound volumes of the Gazette itself—beginning with April 1, 1824—which most impress the student of early American literature. There will always be a charm in turning over the pages where one sees, again and again, the youthful poems of Bryant and of Longfellow placed side by side and often put together on the same page, the you
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 24: Longfellow as a man (search)
; that nothing is more dangerous to an author than sudden success, because the patience of genius is one of its most precious attributes; that he who carries his bricks to the building of every one's house will never build one for himself; —these were all fresh, racy, and truthful, and would bear recalling when many a brilliant stroke of wit had sparkled on the surface and gone under. As a mere critic he grew more amiable and tolerant as he grew older, as is the wont of literary men; and John Dwight, then the recognized head of the musical brotherhood of Boston, always maintained that Longfellow was its worst enemy by giving his warm indorsement to the latest comer, whatever his disqualifications as to style or skill. Holmes said of him in a letter to Motley in 1873:— I find a singular charm in the society of Longfellow,—a soft voice, a sweet and cheerful temper, a receptive rather than aggressive intelligence, the agreeable flavor of scholarship without any pedantic ways, and<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
142. Dana, Richard H., 80, 133. Dannemora, iron mines of, 97. Dante, 214, 230, 234; Longfellow translates, 207, 225. Dartmouth College, 17. Dawes, Rufus, 23. Delphi, 31. Dessau, Spanish Student performed in, 188. Devereux Farm, Marblehead, 201. Devonshire, 223. Dial, the, 125, 133, 145. Dickens, Charles, 170, 284. Diderot, Denis, 121. Digby, Kenelm H., on Longfellow, 142. Dobell, Sydney, 282. Dryden, John, 9, 249. Dublin, Ire., 167. Duxbury, Mass., 12. Dwight, John, 286. Dwight, Rev., Timothy, 14, 23. Eden Hall, 219. Edgeworth, Miss, Maria, 62. Edinburgh, 8, 233. Edinburgh Review, the, 90. Edrehi, Israel, 214. Eichhorn, Prof., 46. Eliot, Charles W., quoted, 184, 185. Eliot, Samuel A., 182. Elmwood, Cambridge, 168. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1, 6, 75,164, 192, 196, 209, 259, 271, 285, 292, 294; on Kavanagh, 199; his influence upon literature, 261, 262; lectures in Cambridge, 272. England, 7, 12, 33, 71, 72, 101, 167, 170, 195, 214, 2