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Search - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - A Sketch Of His Life

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Sketch Of His Life
Author: Charles Eliot Norton

Text extracted from opening pages of book: HENEY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW < A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE BY CHARLES ELIOT NORTON TOGETHER WITH LONGFELLOW'S CHIEF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL POEMS BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY MDCCCCVII COPYRIGHT 1906 BY CHARLES ELIOT NORTON COPYRIGHT 1875, 1878 AND 1879 BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW COPYRIGHT 1903 ... more »AND 1906 BY ERNEST W. LONGFELLOW COPYRIGHT 1885 BY TICKNOR & CO. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED NOTE The proposed commemoration, under the auspices of the Cambridge Historical Society, on the 27th of February, 1907, of the one hundredth anniversary of Longfellow's birthday* accounts for the character of this little volume. Besides the sketch of the life of the Poet, it contains most of those of his shorter poems which are referred to in the narrative* and also those which have a distinctly auto biographical character, and those which relate to his special friends and to the places of his birth and abode. Thus, the little book gives the story of the Poet's life briefly narrated in prose by a friend, and partially re corded in verse by himself. CONTENTS HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW: A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE .... 1 AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL POEMS THE BATTLE OF LOVELL's POND ( 1820) . . 43 PRELUDE TO VOICES OF THE NIGHT ( 1839) . . 44 A PSALM OF LIFE ( 1838) 49 THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS ( 1839) . . . 50 THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH ( 1839) . . . 54 TO THE RIVER CHARLES ( 1841) . . . .56 THE BRIDGE ( 1845) 58 THE ROPEWALK ( 1854) . . . . .61 A GLEAM OF SUNSHINE ( 1846) . . . . 63 TO A CHILD ( 1845) 66 THE OPEN WINDOW ( 1848) . . . . 73 IN THE CHURCHYARD AT CAMBRIDGE ( 1851) . . 74 THE BURIAL OF THE POET ( 1879) . . . 75 THE TWO ANGELS ( 1855) . . . . .76 RESIGNATION ( 1848) ...... 78 DEDICATION TO SEASIDE AND FIRESIDE*' ( 1849) 80 MY LOST YOUTH ( 1855) ..... 82 CONTENTS THE FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY OF AGASSIZ ( 1857) . . 86 HAWTHORNE ( 1864) 87 THREE FRIENDS OF MINE ( 1874) . . . .89 THE HERONS OF ELMWOOD ( 1876) . . . 92 THE CHILDREN'S HOUR ( 1859) . . . .94 TRAVELS BY THE FIRESIDE ( 1874) . . . 96 AMALFI ( 1875) 97 CASTLES IN SPAIN ( 1877) ..... 101 FROM MY ARM-CHAIR ( 1879) .... 104 POSSIBILITIES ( 1882) 107 THE CROSS OF SNOW ( 1879) ..... 107 PALINGENESIS ( 1864) 108 MORITURI SALUTAMUS ( 1874) . . . .111 NOTE The frontispiece portrait of Longfettow in 1842 is from the original painting by G. P. A. Healy in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The autograph, from a letter dated 1840, is in the Charles Folsom Collection, Boston Public Library. The portrait which faces page 42 is from a photograph taken in 1879. The autograph is from a letter dated 1880. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW AT the beginning of the nineteenth century New England was a good land in which to be born. It was still sparsely settled. There were no large towns. Boston, the largest, had scarcely twenty-five thousand inhabitants. The people were homogeneous, of unmixed English stock. They were mainly farmers or seamen. They were intelligent, industrious, and religious. There was great equality of condition, none were very rich, none very poor. Everybody was well off, for the poorest were free from the fear of oppression or starvation. The re lations between man and man were natural and friendly. The general habits of life were simple and frugal; but even in the smaller towns there ' were often a few families which maintained a traditional comparatively high standard of refinement, of intellectual culture, and of moderate though genuine elegance. There was never a more truly democratic community, nor one in which the advantages

ISBN-13: 9781406767148
ISBN-10: 140676714X
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 144
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Publisher: Norton Press
Book Type: Paperback
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