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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 2: birth, childhood, and youth (search)
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'er the tide! And the dead captains, as they lay In their graves<
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 3: first Flights in authorship (search)
found there that sweet sentiment and pure devotion of feeling can spring up and live in the shadow of a low and quiet life, and amid those that have no splendor in their joys, and no parade in their griefs. Thus shall the mind take color from things around us,—from them shall there be a genuine birth of enthusiasm,—a rich development of poetic feeling, that shall break forth in song. Though the works of art must grow old and perish away from earth, the forms of nature shall keep forever their power over the human mind, and have their influence upon the literature of a people. We may rejoice, then, in the hope of beauty and sublimity in our national literature, for no people are richer than we are in the treasures of nature. And well may each of us feel a glorious and high-minded pride in saying, as he looks on the hills and vales,—on the woods and waters of New England,— This is my own, my native land. First printed from the original Ms. in Every other Saturday,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 5: first visit to Europe (search)
llages disappointed him as they disappoint many others. In his letters he recalls how fresh and cheerful and breezy a New England village is; how marked its features—so diferent from the town, so peculiar, so delightful. He finds a French village,lines together, yet he sends to Carey & Lea, the Philadelphia publishers, to propose a series of sketches and tales of New England life. These sketches, as given in his note-book, are as follows:— 1. New England Scenery: description of SebagoNew England Scenery: description of Sebago Pond; rafting logs; tavern scene; a tale connected with the Images. 2. A New England Village: country squire; the parson; the little deacon; the farm-house kitchen. 3. Husking Frolic: song and tales; fellow who plays the fife for the dance; tNew England Village: country squire; the parson; the little deacon; the farm-house kitchen. 3. Husking Frolic: song and tales; fellow who plays the fife for the dance; tale of the Quoddy Indians; description of Sacobezon, their chief. 5. Thanksgiving Day: its merry-making, and tales (also of the Indians). 7. Description of the White Mountains: tale of the Bloody Hand. 10. Reception of Lafayette in a countr
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 7: the corner stone laid (search)
more. As a matter of fact, he had already published preliminary sketches of Outre-Mer in the New England Magazine, a Boston periodical just undertaken, putting them under the rather inappropriate title of The Schoolmaster, the first appearing in the number for July 18, 1831, New England Magazine, i. 27. and the sixth and last in the number for February, 1833. Ibid. IV. 131. He writes to his ss and Whittier tried their 'prentice hands with the best intentions in the same number of the New England Magazine, they could not raise its level. We see in these compositions, as in the Annuals oftill immature. This remark does not, indeed, apply to a version of a French drinking song, New England Magazine, II. 188. which exhibits something of his later knack at such renderings. There wasy only warble in books. A painter might as well introduce an elephant or a rhinoceros into a New England landscape. [This comes, we must remember, from the young poet who had written in his Angler
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 10: Craigie House (search)
Chapter 10: Craigie House In entering on the duties of his Harvard professorship (December, 1836) Longfellow took rooms at the Craigie House in Cambridge. This house, so long his residence, has been claimed as having more historic interest than any house in New England, both from the fact of his ownership and of its having been the headquarters of General Washington during the siege of Boston. It has even been called from these two circumstances the best known residence in the United States, with the exception of Mt. Vernon, with which it has some analogy both in position and in aspect. It overlooks the Charles River as the other overlooks the Potomac, though the latter view is of course far more imposing, and the Craige House wants the picturesque semicircle of outbuildings so characteristic of Mt. Vernon, while it is far finer in respect to rooms, especially in the upper stories. It was built, in all probability, in 1759 by Colonel John Vassall, whose family owned the stil
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 11: Hyperion and the reaction from it (search)
les at about the same time in The North American Review, (July, 1837):— One of the most prominent characteristics of these tales is, that they are national in their character. The author has wisely chosen his themes among the traditions of New England; the dusty legends of the good Old Colony times, when we lived under a king. This is the right material for story. It seems as natural to make tales out of old tumble-down traditions, as canes and snuff-boxes out of old steeples, or trees pothers for being common-sleepers there on the Lord's day? Truly, many quaint and quiet customs, many comic scenes and strange adventures, many wilt and wondrous things, fit for humorous tale, and soft, pathetic story, lie all about us here in New England. There is no tradition of the Rhine nor of the Black Forest, which can compare in beauty with that of the Phantom Ship. The Flying Dutchman of the Cape, and the Klabotermann of the Baltic, are nowise superior. The story of Peter Rugg, the
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 15: Academic life in Cambridge (search)
ed of the routine of this life. This college work is like a great hand laid on all the strings of my lyre, stopping their vibrations. How the days resemble each other and how sad it is to me that I cannot give them all to my poem. have fallen into a very unpoetic mood and cannot write. It must be remembered that his eyes were at this time very weak, that he suffered extremely from neuralgia, and that these entries were all made during the great fugitive slave excitement which agitated New England, and the political overturn in Massachusetts which culminated in the election of the poet's most intimate friend, Sumner, to the United States Senate. He records the occurrence of his forty-fourth birthday, and soon after when he is stereotyping the Golden Legend he says: I still work a good deal upon it, but also writes, only two days after, Working hard with college classes to have them ready for their examinations. A fortnight later he says: Examination in my department; always to me
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 16: literary life in Cambridge (search)
s friends and admirers, and yet of being praised by the two among his contemporaries personally most successful in fiction, Hawthorne and Howells. Now that the New England village life has proved such rich material in the hands of Mary Wilkins, Sarah Jewett, and Rowland Robinson, it is difficult to revert to Kavanagh (1849) withouife, II. 81. When we consider how remote Jean Paul seems from the present daily life of Germany, one feels the utter inappropriateness of his transplantation to New England. Yet Emerson read the book with great contentment, and pronounced it the best sketch we have seen in the direction of the American novel, and discloses at the owells, writing nearly twenty years later, says with almost equal exuberance, speaking of Kavanagh, It seems to us as yet quite unapproached by the multitude of New England romances that have followed it in a certain delicate truthfulness, as it is likely to remain unsurpassed in its light humor and pensive grace. North American R
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 20: Dante (search)
es would perhaps be to destroy it, and that which Mr. Andrews finely says of the Faust may be still more true of the Divina Commedia, that it must remain, after all, the enchanted palace; and the bodies and the bones of those who in other days strove to pierce its encircling hedge lie scattered thickly about it. So Mr. W. C. Lawton, himself an experienced translator from the Greek, says of Longfellow's work, His great version is but a partial success, for it essays the unattainable. The New England Poets, p. 138. But if it be possible to win this success, it is probably destined to be done by one translator working singly and not in direct cooperation with others, however gifted or accomplished. Every great literary work needs criticism from other eyes during its progress. Nevertheless it will always remain doubtful whether any such work, even though it be a translation only, can be satisfactorily done by joint labor. After all, when others have done their best, it is often ne
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Chapter 21: the Loftier strain: Christus (search)
quite daring enough to give full spirit to the scene. Turning now to The New England Tragedies, we find that as far back as 1839, before he had conceived of Chriitle was afterwards changed to John Endicott, and which was the first of The New England Tragedies, was not finished till August 27, 1857, and the work alternated forinted and afterwards rewritten in verse. With it was associated the second New England Tragedy, Giles Corey of the Salem farms, written rapidly in February of thatred to him on April 11, 1871, and which was to harmonize the discord of The New England Tragedies was destined never to be fulfilled. In the mean time, however, he the three parts (I. The Divine Tragedy; II. The Golden Legend, and III. The New England Tragedies). The Divine Tragedy, which now formed the first part, was not onlh the great theme should be so little successful. The book is not, like The New England Tragedies, which completed the circle of Christus, dull in itself. It is, o
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