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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 2: birth, childhood, and youth (search)
ockings, shoes with silver buckles, white cravat with bow in front, hair well powdered and tied behind in a club, so called. The poet was eminently well descended, both on the father's and mother's side, according to the simple provincial standard of those days. Stephen Longfellow and his young wife lived for a time in 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
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Index (search)
, cited, 168 note; on Longfellow, 269. Sebago Pond, 51. Sevigne, Madame de, 121. Shakespeare, William, 2, 5, 8, 32, 66. Shelley, Percy B., 9, 262, 280. Shepley, Rev., David, 19. Sidney, Sir, Philip, 77; his Defence of Poesy, mentioned, 75. Skinner, Mrs., 88. Solis, Anthony de, 188. Southey, Robert, 7, 46. Spain, 50, 55, 66, 83. Sparks, Jared, 118, 178; letter from, to Longfellow, 29, 30. Spectator, the London, 69. Stackelberg, Baron, 95. Stael, Madame de, 121. Stephenson, Samuel, 14. Stettin, 98. Stockoe, Mr., 95. Stockoe, Mrs., 95. Stockholm, 90, 92, 96, 97, 102, 103, 108. Storer, Robert, 101. Story, Judge, Joseph, 11, 86. Strasburg, 8. Strasburg Cathedral, 238. Sudbury, Mass., 214, 215. Sumner, Charles, 57, 80, 146, 147, 162, 164, 173, 206, 216, 271, 272, 284, 289, 292, 294; elected to U. S. Senate, 186; on Evangeline, 195; struck down in Senate, 240. Sweden, 87, 94, 101, 105,135; Longfellow's opinion of, 97. Swinburne, A. C., 6, 216, 2